Mahler’s Song of the Earth With Rafael Payare 2024-2025
This unprecedented convergence of Mahler and the premiere of a new work for voices and orchestra, set in Indigenous languages, delivers an unforgettable season-closing concert!
An unprecedented convergence between the music of Mahler and the premiere of a work for voices and orchestra sung in Indigenous languages will make for a memorable season finale! Faced with the fragility of human existence, the perpetual renewal of nature has nurtured the dream of immortality in humans. This theme, depicted by Mahler in Das Lied von der Erde, will be echoed by a work composed and written by Indigenous, non-Indigenous, and Métis artists paying homage to life and to the Earth. An extraordinary concert that will bring a promising 2024-2025 season to a close!
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare, conductor
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Nikolai Schukoff, tenor
Elisabeth St-Gelais, soprano
Programme
Andrew Balfour, Ian Cusson, Ana Sokolović, Work for Voices and Orchestra, world premiere – OSM commission (20 min.)*
*Canadian work
Intermission (20 min)
Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde [The Song of the Earth] (63 min.)