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© Andreas Schlager
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© Uwe Arens
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© Marco Borggreve
  • Weimarhalle

5th Symphony Concert

Conductor: Marc Albrecht / Soloist: Daniel Müller-Schott

George Alexander Albrecht Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (world première)
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5

 

In December 2021, the honorary conductor of the Staatskapelle Weimar, George Alexander Albrecht, who also left his artistic mark on the orchestra as its general music director between 1996 and 2002, passed away. After the end of his conducting career, he increasingly did what he had been equally enthusiastic about all his life: composing! One of his last completed works will be premièred in this concert: the Cello Concerto, played by the dedicatee Daniel Müller-Schott and conducted by George Alexander Albrecht's son Marc.

Albrecht always had a special admiration for Gustav Mahler's music, and hardly anyone could talk more enthusiastically about his symphonies. In his »Fifth«, Mahler for the first time dispensed entirely with reference to his own song writing and instead allowed his devoted preoccupation with Bach's »Art of Fugue« to blossom. We are still looking for a »secret programme« in view of the opening fanfare, biting caricatures and maximum emotion. The heart of the work, which the composer himself called a »cursed« one because no one understood it, is the magical-sounding Adagietto – supposedly a declaration of love by Mahler to his later wife Alma. In the meantime, the »Fifth« has achieved cult status, not least thanks to its film music career. Music that needs no words.

 

Public dress rehearsal on Sunday, 11 o'clock in the Weimarhalle
Tickets: 12,00 Euro, limited contingent

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  • Marc Albrecht (Dirigent)
  • Daniel Müller-Schott (Violoncello)