Press Release

Mahler’s Inspiration

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Overture
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5

The OM’s Mahler cycle began back in the 2001-2002 season, with the Symphony No. 2, followed by the Symphony No. 3 in 2002, and by Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 in 2003. In its 5th year with the OM, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, wisely choose to present Mahler 5th Symphony to start up the season!

The program begins with Wagner’s Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), full of exuberant joy and impressive solemnity, but also suffused with emotion and tenderness. Two important dimensions of the Wagnerian universe, the earth-bound and the spiritual, are also found in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which opens with a lengthy funeral march but which ends in joy and celebration. The fourth movement, a sublime Adagietto for strings and harp, was made famous in Visconti’s film Death in Venice (1973).

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, Monday September 13, 7:30 pm

On Tour
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (as part of the Festival Orgue et couleurs), Friday, September 24, 8 pm

[7169] News posted Tuesday, June 1, 2004.