Mahler: 8. Symphonie

In the organizer's words:

The season finale will be gigantic: Gustav Mahler's legendary Symphony No. 8 will be performed by the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time - and it's going to be a full-scale performance! At the premiere on September 12, 1910 in Munich, no fewer than 1004 performers were called up, a mass spectacle of unimagined proportions. The work went down in the annals of music history as the "Symphony of a Thousand" and set new standards. Fortunately, however, 1000 performers are not always needed. That would probably cause considerable problems in the comparatively cozy Great Hall of the Glocke. Nevertheless, Mahler's Eighth is still a bombastic work. It is a symphonic apotheosis, a modern hymn to joy (Veni creator spiritus) and a secular mass (final scene from Goethe's Faust II). It is characterized by the key of E flat major, which exudes a majestic aura, and impresses with the unexpected modernity of its writing: a dense and at the same time transparent structure, an extraordinarily lush orchestral apparatus and, hidden behind the masses, incredibly fascinating music.

Price information:

Up to 27 years: €9.50 in all seating categories