Thu 10/2 @ 8PM
Sun 10/5 @ 3PM
Gustav Mahler’s big masterpiece Das Lied von der Erde (“Song of the Earth”) is sort of a symphony but not exactly. Written in the first decade of the 20th century, its six movement require a large orchestra and two voices singing in alternating movements. With the death of his daughter to communicable disease and loss of his own position at the Vienna Court Opera in part due to antisemitism, he was focused on the transience of life when he wrote it.
When the Cleveland Orchestra performs Das Lied von der Erde under the baton of music director Franz Welser-Möst, it will be joined by two rising opera stars, tenor Limmie Pullman (pictured) and baritone Iurii Samoilov.
In addition, the orchestra will play Swiss-French composer Arthur Honneger’s Symphony No. 3 (“Symphonie liturgique”) from 1946 written in the wake of World War II when some of his close friends died in or on their way to Nazi concentration camps. So the aura of antisemitism will haunt Severance Hall on these evenings.
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