Grand passions and epic vistas: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is the gateway into a lost world of central European music, as Sakari Oramo opens the ±«Óătv Symphony Orchestra’s new season.
Grand passions and epic vistas: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is the gateway into a lost world of central European music, as Sakari Oramo opens the ±«Óătv Symphony Orchestra’s new season.
From the hillsides of Transylvania, shepherds’ horns echo and resound. Gustav Mahler contemplates personal tragedy, then fights his way – through waltzes, storms and a heartfelt musical love letter – to life, hope and triumph. And Dora Pejačević dreams out loud, in a neglected, impassioned masterpiece haunted by the shadows of the Great War.
Central Europe doesn’t stop at Vienna: although with Sakari Oramo conducting, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is a truly epic way to launch the new ±«ÓătvSO season. But he begins with a wilder, stranger vision from a great Hungarian modernist – and joins pianist Alexandra Dariescu to champion the Phantasie Concertante by Dora PejaÄŤević, the Croatian composer whose symphony was described as “a genuine find” when Oramo recorded it in 2022.
