Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Mahler 9
From concerts the week of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we share a memorial to the president by Stravinsky with a text by W.H. Auden, from a performance which closed with a moving and intense performance of Mahler’s final completed symphony. The program includes another rarity, this time by Mahler and intended for his First Symphony: the movement titled Blumine (Bouquet of Flowers) featuring principal trumpeter Chris Martin. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts each work. The trumpeter is again brought to the fore with his brass section-mates in two works from their 2011 recording on CSO Resound, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live.
Stravinsky Elegy for J.F.K.
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D Major
Originally recorded at concerts on Nov. 21, 22, 23 and 24, 2013
Mahler Blumine
Originally recorded at concerts on Dec. 8, 9 and 10, 2011
Gabrieli Two Canzonae (from CSO Brass Live CD)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
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