Program Booklet
Mahler's Symphony No. 2
Sunday, February 18
14:15
hour until approximately 3:45 p.m.
A large chorus and orchestra, two top soloists and our inspired chief conductor. Be overwhelmed by Mahler's monumental Second Symphony in Erwin Stein's version. For the first time in Amare!
Programme
Prior to this concert, a Starter will take place at 1:30 pm. You can attend this in the Swing on the second floor to the left of cloakroom.
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 2 in c 'Auferstehung' (1888-1894; arrangement Erwin Stein)
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fließender Bewegung
Urlicht, Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht
Im Tempo des Scherzo
There will be no intermission.
Mahler 2 in Erwin Stein's version
The Residentie Orkest plays Mahler's Second Symphony in the version by Erwin Stein (1885-1958). This Jewish conductor, teacher, writer and arranger worked closely with composer Arnold Schoenberg, among others, and also knew Gustav Mahler personally. Stein was a shareholder of publisher Universal Edition, which also released Mahler's works.
Erwin Stein reduced the scoring of Mahler's Second Symphony to the original scoring of Totenfeier, a stand-alone composition that Mahler later reworked into the first movement of this Second Symphony. An interesting thought by Stein to see how the entire symphony might work in this slightly slimmer but still large instrumentation version. This makes the balance and transparency different from Mahler's original version. We found it interesting to bring this, very rarely performed historical reduction to performance in The Hague.
Like many Jewish artists, Erwin Stein fled - in 1938 - from the Nazis and worked from London. He then had to give up his shares at Universal Edition, which was part of the reason that his version of this symphony was also unknown to the publisher for a long time.
Want to read along with the song lyrics from parts 4 and 5 of this concert? Download them here!
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Biographies
Residentie Orkest The Hague
Anja Bihlmaier
Ruby Hughes
Christianne Stotijn
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Laurens Symphonic
The Residentie Orkest offers the conductor and soloist at this concert a linocut by The Hague artist Mariska Mallee.
Fun Fact
Mahler in The Hague
Mahler visited The Hague once. On October 2, 1909, he strolled along the Scheveningen beach. That, however, was not a success. "The dreary loneliness of the sea disappearing in the fog and the colorless, closed hotels made Mahler nervous," an eyewitness tells us.
RO QUIZ
Where is the original manuscript of Mahler 2?-
Amsterdam
Good answer: Cleveland
Although the original manuscript was gifted by Alma Mahler to Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg in 1920, the document did not remain in the Netherlands. It changed hands in 1984, and in 2016 it was sold at Sotheby's in London for the astronomical sum of 4.5 million pounds to an Austrian media entrepreneur. The latter in turn donated the score to the American Cleveland Orchestra (Ohio) of which he was a big fan.
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Cleveland
Good answer: Cleveland
Although the original manuscript was gifted by Alma Mahler to Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg in 1920, the document did not remain in the Netherlands. It changed hands in 1984, and in 2016 it was sold at Sotheby's in London for the astronomical sum of 4.5 million pounds to an Austrian media entrepreneur. The latter in turn donated the score to the American Cleveland Orchestra (Ohio) of which he was a big fan.
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Vienna
Good answer: Cleveland
Although the original manuscript was gifted by Alma Mahler to Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg in 1920, the document did not remain in the Netherlands. It changed hands in 1984, and in 2016 it was sold at Sotheby's in London for the astronomical sum of 4.5 million pounds to an Austrian media entrepreneur. The latter in turn donated the score to the American Cleveland Orchestra (Ohio) of which he was a big fan.
Good answer: Cleveland
Although the original manuscript was gifted by Alma Mahler to Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg in 1920, the document did not remain in the Netherlands. It changed hands in 1984, and in 2016 it was sold at Sotheby's in London for the astronomical sum of 4.5 million pounds to an Austrian media entrepreneur. The latter in turn donated the score to the American Cleveland Orchestra (Ohio) of which he was a big fan.
Today in the orchestra
Justyna Briefjes
Arno Stoffelsma
Wouter Iseger
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