09/10/17 (Sun) 　Open Time 16:30 / Play Start 17:00
Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (Lucerne)　

Wiener Philharmoniker / Lucerne Festival

Wiener Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding, Conductor

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Debussy
Pelleas et Melisande [Arr. Erich Leinsdorf]

Mahler
Symphonie Nr. 6 in a-Moll

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How strongly is our identity dominated by external constraints, coincidences, and twists of fate? The final concert of the Summer Festival offers a clear answer. In Claude Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, a grim fatalism reigns, and the heroes are only victims who sense a doom that they cannot oppose: fin de siècle – a mood of apocalypse? Gustav Mahler intensifies this atmosphere into nothing less than catastrophe when he has fate not just knock on the door but symbolically strike with a monstrous hammer blow. His widow Alma believed that Mahler anticipated his own fate: the loss of his prestigious position as the director of the Vienna Court Opera, the death of their little daughter Maria, and the heart disease from which he would die at the age of just 50. In spite of all the anxiety we might sense in it, Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is a marvelous confessional work – especially when performed by the Vienna Philharmonic and by a Mahlerian as fiery as Daniel Harding.

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