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HAMBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 2 RESURRECTION

The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra is one of Germany's most distinguished orchestras, as befits a great city with a unique musical history. Leo Schofield.

Conducted by one of Australia’s most distinguished artistic exports Simone Young, the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra with soloists from Hamburg State Opera and a 100 voice choir will perform Mahler’s majestic Symphony No. 2 Resurrection for one night only.

In 1891, composer and conductor Gustav Mahler took up the baton as First Conductor of the Hamburg Opera. It was during his six years in Hamburg that Mahler developed as a composer and conductor, creating his monumental Second Symphony (Resurrection) and expansive Third Symphony.

The ethereal closing chorus of the Resurrection (‘Rise up, yes you will rise up’), one of the most transcendent moments in all music, came to Mahler in a flash of inspiration following the memorial service to the great conductor Hans von Bülow in Hamburg’s vast baroque church of St Michael.

This not-to-be missed, one-off performance will bring together historic and contemporary Hamburg in a majestic evening that is bound to have audiences rising up in spirit and in adulation.