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Orchestra Academy

Tuesday

10.12.2024

19:30 — Victoria Hall

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Programme

Eva Ollikainenconductor

Orchestre de la Haute école de musique de Genèveorchestra

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor, 'Tragic'

Approximately 1h30 without intermission

The music

A tough nut, one that our critics’ feeble little teeth cannot crack. This is how Mahler introduced his Sixth Symphony, his darkest work, which he aptly named 'Tragic'. It stands as one of his greatest masterpieces; the product of tremendous effort. The meaning of the three blows struck by an immense hammer, coupled with sounds of cowbells in the orchestra, has sparked much discussion. They symbolise both the inevitability of fate and a being in search of solitude rising above the noise of the world. Although his statement is bleak, Mahler doesn’t stop there. After this profound realisation, he gets back up and, like his music, he goes on. It is his most personal and prophetic work, anticipating the tragedies that he and the world will once again have to bear, just one decade before the onset of the Great War.

This concert is recorded and broadcast on 11.12.24 as part of the Plein jeu programme, produced by Mitsou Carré. 
Most of the concerts recorded by RTS Espace 2 are available on the Play RTS application: rts.ch/play or rts.ch/culture or osr.ch/live

The venues

OSR Live

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JONATHAN NOTT

Conductor

Yvonne Naef

mezzo-soprano

György Ligeti
Poème symphonique, pour cent métronomes

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm süsser Tod (orchestration by Leopold Stokowski)

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Recorded on 21 January 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 9

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 06 March 2024 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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