Residentie Orkest - Mahler 4
Tonight, the cello and violin shine. The Residentie Orkest concludes the season in its own unique style with Mahler’s heavenly Fourth and the Hungarian strings of Béla Bartók.
Programme
- One Minute Symphony
- Bartók Hongaarse schetsen
- Bartók Altvioolconcert (versie voor cello)
- Mahler Symfonie nr. 4
In the Residentie Orkest’s final concert of the season in Amare, the orchestra’s soon-to-be chief conductor, Jun Märkl, leads a spectacular finale. He will be conducting Mahler’s heavenly Symphony No. 4, a piece that explores innocence, the supernatural and the idyllic, with a special emphasis on the everyday and the playful. The finale, sung by soprano Elizabeth Watts, invokes a serene image of the afterlife. This exploration of Mahler’s fascination with children’s perception is one of the most beloved symphonies in musical history. The concert opens with Bartók and top-flight cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras in his final concert as artist-in-residence.
The season’s finale will see the incredible Queyras performing a personal favourite: Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto, reworked by Queyras himself. An innovative and versatile composer, Bartók is still famed for his tremendous originality: rich combinations of folk music, a unique classical style, dissonance, unconventional harmonies and a passion for music.
The Viola Concerto was one of his last compositions. The Residentie Orkest and Queyras previously joined forces for Queyras’s reworked version in 2022, in a performance praised by the daily newspaper Trouw: “A virtuoso, cutting sound, performed with great zeal.”