Mahler Symphony No. 5
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at 7 pm
Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1-13-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, map
- PMF Orchestra
- Pacific Music Festival
- Manfred Honeck, conductor
- Tianyu Wang, principal trumpet
Pacific Music Festival 2024: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 with Till Fellner and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony — the Picnic Concert at Sapporo Art Park (July 27), the GALA Concert at Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara (July 28) and Suntory Hall, Tokyo (July 30). Tianyu, then 19, was principal trumpet; of the Tokyo performance the critic Kyosuke Hasegawa wrote that the trumpet was in a class of its own from the opening bars.
“From the first bars of the opening movement, the trumpet was already in a class of its own — enough to make a professional orchestra go pale.”
Tianyu also played with them earlier that month, Strauss’s Don Juan.
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First movement, the opening
The trumpet alone opens the symphony with the funeral march’s fanfare, before the whole orchestra answers.
First movement, one bar before rehearsal 13 to one bar before 14
First movement, the last bars
The fanfare is heard one last time, quietly, before the movement ends on a single pizzicato.
Third movement (Scherzo), rehearsal 13
A short trumpet passage from the Scherzo, the symphony’s longest movement, built on the Ländler and the waltz.
Attacca: Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto at Alice Tully Hall, on Monday, September 16, 2024.
