For this final concert of the season the Orchestre Métropolitain is joined by several additional wind and percussion instruments, and by a guitar and a mandolin. The concert features Mahler’s monumental, nocturnally-inspired symphony.

Programme

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 7

Description

This is a fascinating and explosive kaleidoscope in which the sense of collage borders on excess! Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 is certainly the most bombastic of all. Its asymmetrical architecture is remarkable: in the middle, a grand scherzo set to a waltz rhythm, two Nachtmusik (night music) themes before and after the scherzo, and two allegros to open and close the symphony, for a total of five movements.

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