Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Alba G. Corral

Grec 2022 — Teatre Grec

22 July 2022

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The orchestra will be performing The Song of the Earth by Gustav Mahler, a series of songs for two voices and orchestra with oriental inspiration. The concert will feature two exceptional singers as well as work from a visual artist specialising in digital creation.

The Austro-Bohemian composer Gustav Mahler wrote Das Lied von der Erde, known in English as The Song of the Earth, in 1907, during a stay in Tyrol, shortly after the death of his daughter Maria and when he had just been diagnosed with a heart defect he could see was terminal (he died in 1911) . The piece is a composition for orchestra and tenor and baritone (or contralto, as in this performance), consisting of six movements, each constituting an independent song. The form of the work lies somewhere between symphony and Lied and is structured according to the various stages of life, up to its conclusion when a man or woman crosses the threshold of death and enters unknown territory.

Heading the OBC will be Matthias Pintscher, a renowned composer, the conductor of the Ensemble Intercontemporain since 2013. The musical experience will be rounded off with projections prepared for the occasion by Alba G. Corral, a visual artist and code developer.

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Music director: Matthias Pintscher
Performed by: OBC, Stuart Skelton (tenor), Jennifer Johnston (contralto)
Audio-visual creator: Alba G. Corral
Photography: May Zircus / l'Auditori

A production from the Barcelona Grec Festival 2022 and the Barcelona Symphony and Catalan National Orchestra.