MAHLER FESTIVAL: Chamber orchestra concert

Program:
All works by Gustav Mahler:

"Im Lenz"
"I walked with pleasure through a green forest"
"Ging heut Morgen übers Feld' (from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)

"Hans and Grethe"
Scherzo from Symphony No. 1

"Ablösung im Sommer" (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Scherzo from Symphony No. 3 (3rd movement)

Night Music I from Symphony No. 7 (2nd movement)

--- Intermission ---

"Blumine" from Symphony No. 1 (first version)
"Der Abschied" from Das Lied von der Erde

Mahler believed that nature held the key to the depths of life. He once summarized this as follows: "So I can be given the title: 'Singer of Nature'" and describes himself as an artist who is inspired by sacred life and gains knowledge from it. Significantly, the second and third movements of the Third Symphony are entitled "What the flowers in the meadow tell me" and "What the animals in the forest tell me" - a clear acknowledgement by the composer of his close relationship with nature.