Mahler 10 with Edward Gardner

After last season’s performance of Zemlinsky’s spellbinding telling of the story of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, Honorary Conductor Edward Gardner returns for Zemlinsky’s last work in the late Romantic Viennese tradition – his Lyric Symphony. In this setting of seven pieces of Hindu poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, the composer unfurls a salient study in human relationships in which soprano and baritone soloists present female and male archetypes. The result is an alluring, mysterious, sexy slice of late Romantic lusciousness in which the soloists drape their alternate verses over a kaleidoscopic orchestra. Regulars at the great opera houses of central Europe, Camilla Nylund and Alexander Grassauer, are the soloists.