10. Sinfoniekonzert

In the organizer's words:

"From night to light" - Gustav Mahler designed his second symphony according to this principle of antiquity. General Music Director Joseph Trafton precedes this great work of confession with the song cycle Let me tell you by the Dane Hans Abrahamsen. In it, Shakespeare's Ophelia from Hamlet finds her death in the eternal ice. Mahler's second symphony then focuses on the question of our finiteness and hope for redemption. The first movement unleashes a celebration of the dead with powerful, infernal and ghostly sounds. After anxious questions in the fourth movement Urlicht , the grand apotheosis "Auferstehn, ja auferstehn wirst du" in the finale finally promises consolation and bliss. Mahler's Second is not simply a symphony. It conjures up a whole life, a world - deeply moving and shattering.

Hans Abrahamsen
Let me tell you

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor Resurrection Symphony