Experiences: Mendelssohn / Mahler
Eufonie

A concert

Performances

Instrumental works can be viewed either as sound and form, or as conveying extra-musical content. For Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, despite his fascination with nature and travel, music always remained the domain of sensual sound and formal perfection, and his Violin Concerto in E minor is an evocative example of this. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, on the other hand, is a programmatic work in which the composer depicted through sound the story of a young hero facing adversity.

PROGRAMME

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 [26'] (1844/1845)
Allegro molto appassionato
Andante
Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace

*** intermission [20’] 

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony No. 1 in D major (Titan) [53’]
(1896/1910)
Langsam. Schleppend. Wie ein Naturlaut 
Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell 
Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen 
Stürmisch bewegt 

Julian Rachlin 
violin

Sinfonia Varsovia 

Radosław Szulc 
conductor

Credits

Sponsors

  • Organizatorzy

  • Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

  • Patron of the Polish National Opera

    Partner of the Opera Academy

  • Patron of the Polish National Opera

  • Partners of the Polish National Opera

  • Media patrons