08.02.2019

BERNARDA FINK - February dedicated to Gustav Mahler

Bernarda Fink has a special relationship with Gustav Mahler’s song cycles and symphonies. Mahler’s first four symphonies were inspired by songs, and Bernarda Fink’s love of the art song is an important reason she began singing in the first place. Therefore, it is logical that she is a frequent and popular guest of all the European and American symphony orchestras when Mahler is programmed.

Her Mahler series in February begins with concert performances of Das Lied von der Erde in Maastricht, Eindhoven and Den Bosch:


Programme

Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)


Cast

Bernarda Fink, mezzosoprano
Robert Dean Smith, tenor

South Netherlands Philharmonic
Conductor: Hans Graf


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Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony is on the programme when Bernarda Fink returns to the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, after recent visits in March and December 2018. Jakub Hrůša conducts the concerts in Bamberg and at the Philharmonie de Paris:


Cast

Bernarda Fink, mezzosoprano
Bamberg Symphony

Conductor: Jakub Hruša


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The “Mahler month” on her schedule draws to a close in Angers and Nantes, where she performs the solo part in the Second Symphony, the “Resurrection Symphony”:


Cast


Anna Schoeck, soprano
Bernarda Fink, mezzosoprano

ONPL Choir
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
Conductor: Pascal Rophé