Breathtaking is nowhere near a powerful enough adjective to describe Gustav Mahler’s masterwork, “Symphony No. 6 in A Minor,” or its bravura rendering by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, writes HedyWeissCritic
Guest conductor Jaap van Zweden leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s “Symphony No. 6 in A Minor” on April 21, 2022.
In his program notes for the CSO, Phillip Huscher described how Mahler and his family spent the summer of 1903 in a villa, and how he retreated to a tiny hut in the adjoining forest to compose the work. And listening to the symphony, you cannot help but wonder how all the “sturm und drang” and overwhelming beauty and emotional complexity of the work could have emerged from the composer’s imagination in that shack. Perhaps that was the secret.
And then a certain quietude set in, with the lightness of the celeste, the gentle heat of the winds, the triumphal sound of the French horns and a thrilling, high-speed massing of the full orchestra. And that was just the first of the symphony’s four movements. The symphony’s third movement opens in a very different way, with a beautifully lyrical, dreamy melody, a French horn solo, the return of the winds and strings. A lushly romantic turn. But Mahler never lets you rest; there is always an undertow to his music.
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