San Diego Symphony Roares with Bruckner’s Romantic Power Payare Leads a Majestic Musical Journey!

Rafael Payare, conductor
Matthias Goerne, baritone
San Diego Symphony Orchestra

MAHLER: Selections from The Boy’s Magical Horn (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” in E-flat Major, WAB 104

Few literary works had as significant an influence throughout the 19th century as The Boy’s Magical Horn (Des Knaben Wunderhorn); its mix of everyday experience and the supernatural and bizarre was a perfect match for the Romantic movement. Mahler, one of the greatest songwriters of all time, used these texts as the basis for his creation, evoking the lives and feelings of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

Bruckner’s spacious symphonies are filled with images of the countryside and high mountains of his native Austria; his Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” is especially loved for its magnificent writing for the horns, using these instruments to suggest wild huntsmen riding across a landscape.

Gustav Mahler was one of the greatest songwriters of all time, his beautiful melodies evoking the lives and feelings of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Mahler’s much-loved teacher was Anton Bruckner whose gloriously spacious symphonies are filled with images of the green countryside and high mountains of his native Austria.