Summary: Podcast host Mark Travis shares the history and impact of Mozart's penultimate symphony, No. 40, and talks with baritone Thomas Hampson about Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, settings of poems Rückert wrote reacting to the death of his children. Philharmonic Artistic Administrator John Mangum discusses Thomas Adès's In Seven Days (Concerto for Piano with Moving Image) — a musical exploration of the creation story in Genesis — which will feature the composer as pianist as well as imagery created by video artist Tal Rosner.
