Mahler Symphony No 2

New York Philharmonic

Fri 1 May 2020, 19:30 ,Barbican Hall

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Mahler’s Resurrection opens on the brink of the abyss and finishes at the end and rebirth of all existence. Every performance is special, but how much more so when the orchestra is Mahler’s own?

Jaap van Zweden is intensely aware of that illustrious heritage. ‘The New York Philharmonic carries the DNA of all the great conductors and all the great concerts with them’ he says. ‘My tradition and their tradition meet in the middle all the time.’

But there are unlikely to be any compromises in a work as shattering as Mahler’s life-and-death epic: just full-blooded commitment from one of the world’s great orchestras to close their two-concert residency.

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