Paavo Järvi with Mahler

At these concerts, you can buy a printed programme booklet for CHF 5 at the ticket office and at the CD table in the concert foyer on the evening of the concert.
The Mahler special edition is also available (single price CHF 5; combined price programme booklet plus special edition CHF 7).

Our Mahler cycle enters its fourth round! After Symphonies Nos. 5, 1 and 7, we are now performing and recording No. 2. It has become known as the "Resurrection Symphony", although this epithet does not come from Mahler himself. The work leads from a celebration of the dead through wistful, desperate and faithful memories to redemption. For Paavo Järvi, Mahler's Jewish origins play a central role in this work: "As famous as he was as a conductor and composer, he was always somehow an outsider in Vienna, which was quite anti-Semitic at the time," he says. With Symphony No. 2, Mahler wanted to signalise that he belonged after all - "but only so that they would leave him alone and he could be exactly what he wanted".