ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA (THE): Program 7: Music's Emotional Impact / Program 8: Mahler: Love, Sorrow and Transcendence (G. Schwarz)
Soloist:
Maultsby, Nancy
Orchestra:
All-Star Orchestra, The
Conductor:
Schwarz, Gerard
Composer:
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Composer:
Stock, David
Composer:
Mahler, Gustav
Composer:
Thomas, Augusta Read
Composer:
Rands, Bernard
Venue: Grand Ballroom, Manhattan Center, New York
Date of Concert: 2012
Playing Time: 01:53:11
Catalogue Number: 2.110351
UPC: 747313535156
The All-Star Orchestra gives you a front row seat to the world's greatest music, performed by top players chosen from over 30 great American orchestras, and conducted by Gerard Schwarz. The programs feature complete performances of popular masterpieces and world premieres of new works by leading American composers. Filmed in High-Definition with 19 cameras during a once-a-year 'summit' in New York's historic Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center, the All-Star Orchestra celebrates the symphonic experience in the 21st century.
Program 7: Music's Emotional Impact
This program delves into Tchaikovsky's dramatic personal life, his brief marriage, and his intense correspondence with his patroness Nadezhda von Meck, whom he never met, and to whom he dedicated is 4th Symphony. The dramatic brass fanfares that for Tchaikovsky symbolized Fate find a modern echo in David Stock's Blast!
Program 8: Mahler: Love, Sorrow and Transcendence
Mahler's turbulent passions are expressed through his music. His settings of poems by Friedrich Ruckert explore themes of love, nature, and otherworldliness. Mahler was haunted throughout his life by the premonition of his own death. The first movement of his 2nd Symphony, which Mahler called "Totenfeier" (Funerary Rites), draws stark contrasts between the composer's premonition of doom, and his vision of life. Modern reflections on these themes can be found in Adieu by Bernard Rands and Of Paradise and Light by Augusta Read Thomas.
