SubmittedFriday, 03 May 2019
conducted by Gustav Mahler
Sunday, May 21st.
Cinquième Symphonie: Gustav Mahler (conducted by Gustav Mahler).
Rhapsodie, for contralto, choir, and orchestra: Johannes Brahms (conducted by Ernst Münch).
Strasburg Concerto in G major, for violin (played by Henri Marteau; conducted by Richard Strauss).
Sinfonia domestica: Richard Strauss (conducted by Richard Strauss).
Monday, May 22nd.
Coriolan Overture: Beethoven (conducted by Gustav Mahler).
Concerto in G major, for piano: Beethoven (played by Ferruccio Busoni).
Lieder: An die enfernie Geliebte: Beethoven (sung by Ludwig Hess).
Choral Symphony: Beethoven (conducted by Gustav Mahler).
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M. Chevillard alone represented our French musicians at the festival; and they could have made no better choice of a conductor. But Germany had delegated her two greatest composers, Strauss and Mahler, to come to conduct their newest compositions. And I think it would not have been too much to set up one of our own foremost composers to combat the glory which these two enjoy in their own country.
M. Chevillard had been asked to conduct, not one of the works of our recent masters, like Debussy or Dukas, whose style he renders to perfection, but Franck’s Les Béatitudes, a work whose spirit he does not, to my mind, quite understand. The mystic tenderness of Franck escapes him, and he brings out only what is dramatic. And so that performance of Les Béatitudes, though in many respects fine, left an imperfect idea of Franck’s genius.
this was: Conducted By Gustav Mahler
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