RESURRECTION
DAWID RUNTZ, conductor
ANNE SCHWANEWILMS, sopran
IVANA SRBLJAN, mezzosopran
IVAN GORAN KOVAČIĆ, academic choir
Mahler
DAWID RUNTZ, conductor
IVAN GORAN KOVAČIĆ, Academic Choir
SA soloists
Program:
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection
In the darkness and hopelessness of present day we await and hope... Then comes the “resurrection”. This is the message for mankind conveyed by Gustav Mahler in his Symphony No. 2. “The effect is so great that one cannot describe it,” he wrote to a friend after some preliminary rehearsals in January 1895. “If I were to say what I think of this great work, it would sound too arrogant in a letter. [...] The whole thing sounds as though it came to us from some other world. I think there is no one who can resist it. One is battered to the ground and then raised on angel’s wings to the highest heights” – Gustav Mahler.
