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Salonen leads MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

5/31/2017

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(from a press release)
Tonight through June 6, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads The MET Orchestra in three programs at Carnegie Hall, returning to the hall for the first time since the '90s. The last time Salonen appeared at Carnegie Hall, he was leading the orchestra from the Sibelius Academy, where he had studied horn, conducting, and composition. The concerts include music by Sibelius, Mahler, and Schumann, and feature mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, tenor Matthew Polenzani, mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, tenor Stuart Skelton, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, and violinist Christian Tetzlaff.

Carnegie Hall
The MET Orchestra

May 31 - 8 pm
Mahler: Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
"Der Schildwache Nachtlied"
"Verlorne Müh’!"
"Trost im Unglück"
 "Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?"
"Das irdische Leben"

"Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt"
"Rheinlegendchen"
"Lied des Verfolgten im Turm"
"Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen"
"Lob des hohen Verstandes"
Mahler: Symphony No. 1


Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor



June 3 - 3 pm
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Stuart Skelton, tenor



June 6 - 8 pm
Mahler: Blumine
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
"Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n"
"Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen"
"Wenn dein Mütterlein"
"Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen"
"In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus"

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano


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