PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CONCERT DOES NOT TAKE PLACE AT THE FIDELIO CAFE
Despite being written at the prime time of his life, Mahler’s sixth symphony carries with it the foreboding signs of the tragic circumstances that will follow a few years later. The symphony is arguably Mahler’s most daring work for its deliberate defying of resolution, whilst maintaining an overall tonal structure. One perceives through its four movements a restlessness which, if mildly placated in the beautiful Andante, can only find its natural evolution in a number of hammer blows which seem to force the music to contain itself from developing any further.
