The Gewandhaus is putting on a Mahler cycle with visiting orchestras, international names, $200 tickets and the like.
But after the show, some of the musicians head down to a dive where they play Mahler snippets for a younger crowd.
Watch.
(Is that Alan Gilbert on violin?)
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Somehow, someone needs to pay for the many name orchestras and conductors playing all of Mahler’s symphonies in Leipzig. Hence, maybe 10 percent of seats in the vast Gewandhaus auditorium are at 200 Euros. The rest are very reasonably priced – which is the norm in the various music venues in this city of music catering to the local, music-loving populace.
In an age of tiresome lies and too much innuendo, let’s be fairer in our “pronouncements.” Less snarky is better.
You are right . I go to Leipzig next saturday for five concerts .
The prices are from 80 Euros to 200 ( only a few tickets when I have reserved ) = Third symphony with Dresden and Thielemann , conductor not frequently assocaited with GM
Or possibly on viola?
based on my experience at the Stadt Opera in Vienna, the Germans/Austrians have a long history of preferring their Mahler “underground”
They’re more or less kicking this festival off with Mahler’s completion of Carl Maria von Weber’s “Die Drei Pintos”. It was a big hit in both Leipzig and Dresden, just after finished it. Dmitri Jurowski is leading the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Chorus. The lineup of soloists is as follows: Wilhelm Schwinghammer Bass (Don Pantaleone de Paccheco), Viktorija Kaminskaite Sopran (Clarissa), Matthew Swensen Tenor (Don Gomez de Freiros), Annelie Sophie Müller Mezzosopran (Laura), Benjamin Bruns Tenor (Don Gaston Viratos), Franz Hawlata Bass (Don Pinto de Fonseca, Wirt), Katja Stuber Sopran (Inez), Krešimir Stražanac Bariton (Ambrosio).
It’s Gilbert but not Kaplan.
Yes, it’s AG!
It’s Gilbert on viola I think
I’m not sure about all of the short clips. One of them – at 1:44″ -appears to have Mr. Joshua Bell on violin. The other does seem to have Mr. Alan Gilbert.