Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer - Mahler's Symphony No. 2
The Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir perform Mahler's Second Symphony under the baton of Iván Fischer, especially for the Mahler Festival in the Concertgebouw on May 10, 2025 - an emotionally charged work about the resurrection that follows death. Note: Tickets will go on sale on 1 June 2024.
Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer - Mahler's Symphony No. 2
Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer
'Mahler's beauty always hurts', conductor Iván Fischer said recently. Tonight, he conducts his Budapest Festival Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 2, full of passion, lyricism and brightly shining melodies. Mahler is in good hands with Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Fischer knows like no other how to get Mahler's music flowing; there is no composer he understands better. As early as 2006, Fischer and the orchestra recorded Mahler's Symphony No. 2. 'Impressive', wrote Gramophone.
Mahler's Symphony No. 2
He who calls us gives us eternal life - sings the choir towards the end of Mahler's Symphony No. 2. In this emotionally charged work, Mahler expresses his ideas about life after death. Bliss and melancholy are both given space. Pure, insinuatingly and moving.
Mahler Festival
From 9 to 18 May 2025, Het Concertgebouw is organizing a major Mahler Festival for the third time. After the Mahler Festivities in 1920 and 1995, all of Mahler's symphonies will be heard again in the Main Hall. Among others, they will be performed by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, which was once conducted by Mahler himself. A selection of top soloists and choirs, led by conductors such as Iván Fischer and Jaap van Zweden, devote themselves to these monumental works. More information about the Mahler Festival can be found here.
Amsterdam 750
On 27 October 2025, Amsterdam will celebrate its 750th anniversary, marking a year-long celebration. Starting on 27 October 2024, a jubilee year full of activities for all Amsterdammers begins.
Dates and times
Saturday 10 May | 20:15 - 22:35 |
Sunday 11 May | 11:00 - 12:00 |
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