Mahler's Fifth Symphony

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A version for orchestra of Alborada del Grazioso — a piece that Maurice Ravel initially included in his suggestively titled series for piano Miroirs — will open a concert performed by the Euskadiko Orkestra, conducted by Antonio Méndez and featuring soprano Sofía Esparza.

Gustav Mahler’s Fifth, which begins with a trumpet solo before leading to a fascinating strepitoso involving the entire orchestra, can be heard in the second part of the concert. In addition to the famous funeral march, which is a distant relative of Beethoven’s Third, Mahler’s opus offers unresolved dialectics between beauty and decadence, dramatizing the delicacy of the first, while breaking with classical formulas and ppening the doors to new ways of understanding music.

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