Andris Nelsons conducts Widmann and Mahler featuring Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Adventurous Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger has collaborated frequently with Andris Nelsons and the BSO in a range of exciting works. This season he plays the American premiere of a BSO co-commissioned work by Jörg Widmann—the second BSO commission from the prominent German composer. Widmann, himself a noted clarinetist, creates imaginatively dramatic works with deep roots in music history.
The first of Mahler’s nine symphonies employs folk-music references and a conventional four-movement form that have their foundations in Haydn’s time. Its expanded scope and instrumentation are evidence of the genre’s 19th-century transformation as well as Mahler’s own stretching of the form.
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Program Notes & Works
Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI), for trumpet and orchestra
BSO co-commission. “The trumpet soloist sets off on a labyrinthine journey through a wide spectrum of psychological and tonal zones towards a utopian state of suspension.”
Symphony No. 1 in D
Gustav Mahler’s first contribution to the genre of the symphony, which he was to dominate and change drastically, took an unusually long gestation period to reach its final form.
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