Auckland Philharmonia | NZ Herald Premier Series: Mahler 1

Conductor - Giordano Bellincampi
Violin - Ning Feng

Wagner - Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
Berg - Violin Concerto
Mahler - Symphony No.1 ‘Titan’

Mahler’s astonishing First Symphony begins with the primeval sound of the world awakening: it tells stories of love, death, nature; it ends with the sheer elation of being alive. It will sweep you away.

Wagner’s music is rarely so celestial as in the prelude to his drama of forgiveness and redemption.

Violinist Ning Feng makes a welcome return to the Town Hall stage for Berg’s dream-smitten concerto ‘in memory of an angel’, contemplating nostalgia, tender affection, and rage against fate.