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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | CBSO Chorus | Andris Nelsons | Lucy Crowe | Mihoko Fujimura
Lucerne, Switzerland
Monday, 3 September 2012 - 7:30 PM
Presenter: Lucerne Festival
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
The ultimate questions of life and the meaning of existence always stood at the center of Gustav Mahler’s thinking: “Why have you lived? Why have you suffered? Is it all some huge, awful joke?” He found consolation in his faith in “a continuation,” in the hereafter. When Mahler attended the memorial service for Hans von Bülow in March 1894 and heard the sacred song “Die Auferstehung” (“The Resurrection”) to a text by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock sung, it came to him in a flash how to continue with his Second Symphony, on which he was working at the time, by incorporating this source. Mahler himself took up Klopstock’s verses, extending them to serve as the programmatic basis for the finale. Here, using the model of Beethoven’s Ninth, he included chorus and vocal soloists: “I shall die so as to live!” Launching his residency with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, “artiste étoile” Andris Nelsons will conduct this key work for our theme of “Faith.”
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