MAHLER FESTIVAL: Chamber music evening with reading and singing

Johannes Brahms, Two Songs, Op. 91 (1863/84)
(arrangement for voice, clarinet, cello and piano)
"Satisfied longing" (Friedrich Rückert)
"Geistliches Wiegenlied" (Emanuel Geibel after Lope de Vega)

Johannes Brahms, Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 114 (1891)
1st Allegro
2nd Adagio
3 Andantino grazioso
4th Allegro

Gustav Mahler, Rückert-Lieder (1901-02)
(arrangement for voice, violin, clarinet, cello and piano)
1 "Do not look into my songs!"
2 "I breathe a mild fragrance!"
3 "I am lost to the world"
4 "At midnight"
5. "Do you love for beauty"

An important part of Mahler's universe is taken up by the creative works of his contemporaries. One of the most important among them during his time in Steinbach am Attersee was certainly Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), who spent his summer months not far away in the spa town of Bad Ischl. Mahler occasionally cycled there to visit the ageing master and described these excursions with a quote from Goethe's Faust: "From time to time I like to see the old man", a witty allusion to Mephistopheles, who occasionally drops in on God. This concert presents works by both composers and texts from Mahler's memoirs that shed light on this extraordinary relationship.

10th Gustav Mahler Festival in Steinbach am Attersee: The 3rd Symphony
The Gustav Mahler Festival 2026 in Steinbach am Attersee takes place from June 21 to 28, 2026 and revolves around the composer's third symphony.
Further information: www.mahler.steinbach.at