Jun 16, 2009
Mahler is usually associated with sprawling works, including his "Symphony of a Thousand." A reduced version of his heavenly song from his Fourth Symphony is on the opening-night program for the 40th season of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Soprano Dawn Upshaw will be accompanied by 12 instrumentalists in Mahler's "Sehr behaglich" ("Very Comfortably") at the Sept. 23 gala opener at Alice Tully Hall. She also will perform the CMS-commissioned world premiere by British-American composer David Bruce, the society announced Tuesday. Works by Beethoven, Schubert and Johann Strauss Jr. round out the Viennese program.
Other season highlights include:
_ The complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets and violin and cello sonatas.
_ Pianist Inon Barnatan and others performing works by Schubert written in the final year of his life. He died at age 31 in 1828.
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