SMS 1: For the Beginning

Due to ill health, Charles Dutoit will be replaced by Kakhi Solomnishvili as the conductor of the SMS series opening concert.
Thank you for your understanding.

Solistki:

Darija Auguštan, soprano
Nuška Drašček, mezzo-soprano

Programme:
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C minor

In a letter to a friend, Gustav Mahler wrote about himself and his Second Symphony: “The effect is so great that it is impossible to describe. If I had to say anything about this magnificent composition in this letter, it would sound too arrogant… The whole composition sounds as if it had come to us from another world. I don’t think anyone can resist this music. A man is first annihilated, and then he is raised to the highest heights on the wings of an angel.”