Einfelde and Mahler -BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons speaks with Brian Bell about Einfelde and Mahler, 2018.




BSO 2018/19 Season - Concert Previews show

Summary: BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Mahler's all-embracing. ninety-minute Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, along with Chinese soprano Ying Fang and Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink. The third movement is a setting of "Urlicht," a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a source of texts for many of Mahler's songs, and the vast finale includes a setting for chorus and soprano of verses from Klopstock's poem "Resurrection."