Orchestral Concert: Mahler

About the Event

In this highly‐anticipated concert, hear the sounds of classical music by Mahler at Budapest's Congress Center.

“It is music coming from another world it is coming from eternity.” These are Herbert von Karajan’s words on Mahler’s 9th Symphony. Indeed, the work, lasting almost an hour and a half, creates a very special atmosphere. This is the last score the composer finished still, we cannot say for sure if he was saying farewell to life as he started working on his 10th almost immediately and with the same vigor. It is indisputable, however, that the subject of the symphony is death: its mournful, grotesque, beautiful, and redemptory sides alike. The gigantic first movement begins innocently but intensifies into cacophony this is followed by a movement put together from dances: folksy ländler and waltz. Then comes Mahler’s most modern music, the Rondo‐Burlesque, and, finally, the vision of the afterworld its ethereal sound closing the solemn and touching work.