Symphonics in Miniature presents 'Titan' that revives the symphonic The Songs of the Wandering Comrade and the First Symphony in R by the great composer Gustav Mahler.
Symphonics in Miniature returns with the title 'Titan'.
The Ensemble of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, ODA, conducted by Isabel Costes, with the interpretation of the baritone Rajiv Cerezo, will offer the performance of The Songs of the Wandering Comrade, together with the First Symphony in R M by the great composer Gustav Mahler.
Mahler wrote the poetry for Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen - The Songs of the Wandering Comrade -, although he was greatly influenced by the popular verses of the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn - The Magic Horn of Youth -. Selections from which he would later put for voice and orchestra. Several facts about Mahler arise in relation to this First Symphony.
The themes of his Songs of a Wandering Comrade, which he began in 1883, play a central role in the overture and third movement of the First Symphony. It was in 1884 that he first scribbled down the themes that would eventually go into the Symphony. In 1889 the First Symphony premiered in Budapest in its original five-movement version. After the premiere, he revised it for further performances, eventually excising an entire movement and premiering the work in virtually its present form in Berlin in 1896.
Finally, he left a four-movement Symphony with a sonata-allegro overture, a spirited, earthy dance movement, the funeral procession, and a finale whose storm dissolves in light. And though it is a product of his years as a traveler, the Symphony, in its final form, already affirms Mahler's complete mastery, an unequivocal announcement that the traveler has finally arrived.
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