Thu 2/9 @ 7:30PM
Fri 2/10 @ 8PM
Sat 2/11 @ 8PM
Gustav Mahler is known for this dramatic large-scale works, including his symphonies and vocal works. His Songs of the Earth or Das Lied von der Erde, first performed in 1911 shortly after his death, is a song cycle that the Cleveland Orchestra, which performs it three times this week, describes as “a gigantic symphony of song” and “one of the composer’s most emotionally complex works, large in scale but intimate in feeling.”
American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung (pictured) and tenor Paul Groves will be its special guests for the concerts, conducted by Donald Runnicles , who currently holds positions with orchestras in Germany, Scotland and Atlanta and is the music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming. The concerts open with Franz Schubert’s Symphony No 8 (“Unfinished”).
Tickets are $29-$149.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106