A Canção da Terra
Event
Wine has been enjoyed and celebrated alongside this other great pleasure, music. In the programme for this concert, pieces by three great Austrian composers evoke this connection in different ways. Starting with a festive overture, a famous waltz by Johann Strauss II, and “The Song of the Earth”, one of Mahler's most original and fascinating creations. Written in the last years of his life and unpublished at the time of his death, the work falls between the genres of symphony and orchestral song and derives from Chinese poetry, which Mahler serves with an especially imaginative and refined orchestration. Orquestra Sinfónica also performs the rare and highly original “Der Wein”, in which Alban Berg combines Mahler's heritage, dodecaphonism and a profoundly eclectic expressive variety.
