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Carnegie Hall Presents

Gergiev and Mariinsky's Mahler

Series Events

Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010 | 7:30 PM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Anastasia Kalagina, Soprano
  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
  • Olga Borodina, Mezzo-Soprano
  • Orfeón Pamplonés
    Igor Ijurra Fernández, Director
  • The Choral Arts Society of Washington
    Norman Scribner, Artistic Director

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"

  • There is no late seating for this performance. Program is approximately 1 hour, 20 minutes and will be performed without intermission.
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Last season, Gergiev brought his Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus to Carnegie Hall, leaving concertgoers and critics feeling the tragic pain of Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet. For this concert, he leads the Mariinsky in a powerful ode to the indelible human spirit, perhaps the most beloved of Mahler’s symphonies.
Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection” (V. Im Tempo des Scherzo)
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
LSO Live
Thursday, Oct 21, 2010 | 8 PM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Alexei Markov, Baritone (Pater ecstaticus)
  • Anastasia Kalagina, Soprano (Una poenitentium)
  • Avgust Amonov, Tenor (Doctor Marianus)
  • Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy
    Dianne Berkun, Artistic Director
  • Evgeny Nikitin, Bass (Pater profundus)
  • Liudmila Dudinova, Soprano (Mater gloriosa)
  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
  • Olga Savova, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana)
  • Orfeón Pamplonés
    Igor Ijurra Fernández, Director
  • The Choral Arts Society of Washington
    Norman Scribner, Artistic Director
  • Viktoria Yastrebova, Soprano (Magna Peccatrix)
  • Zlata Bulycheva, Mezzo-Soprano (Maria Aegyptiaca)

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 8

  • There is no late seating for this performance. Program is approximately 1 hour, 20 minutes, and will be performed without intermission.
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Three choruses, a phalanx of soloists, Gergiev, and his Mariinsky Orchestra perform the mammoth work that received its triumphant first performance in Munich in 1910, only months before the composer died. The “Symphony of a Thousand” is one of a kind, a setting of Veni creator spiritus preceding the closing scene of Goethe’s Faust.

Valery Gergiev will be signing CDs after this concert.
Mahler Symphony No. 8 (I. Hymnus: Veni, creator spiritus)
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, Conductor
LSO Live
Friday, Oct 22, 2010 | 11 AM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 5

  • There is no late seating for this performance. Program is approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes, and will be performed without intermission.
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Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, on hearing Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra perform the Fifth Symphony last season, wrote that “no one else conducts Mahler like this. No other orchestra plays Mahler like this.” Find out for yourself at this concert.
Mahler Symphony No. 5 (Adagietto)
New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein
Sony Classical
Sunday, Oct 24, 2010 | 2 PM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Anastasia Kalagina, Soprano
  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 4
  • MAHLER Symphony No. 1
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Hear trumpets proclaiming a fanfare from offstage, a bass solo that parodies “Frère Jacques”—even sleigh bells. For the final concert of their Carnegie Hall Mahler showcase, Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra present two of the composer’s symphonies, both incorporating novel effects. Soprano Anastasia Kalagina joins on the fourth symphony, whose final movement is a haunting setting of a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan”Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan” (IV. Stürmisch bewegt)
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, conductor
LSO Live