Philadelphia And Yannick in Taipei !!!!

Yannick Nezet - Seguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra presenting Mahler's " Titan " in the Taipei National Concert Hall tonight.

He is a very poetic, charismatic, and dramatic conductor who likes long lines of melody with immense legatos and dynamics . As Young and vibrant is he, I believe he will become one of the major conductors of the world orchestras in the near future!

Excellent Performance ! Bravo!
And I love Mahler so much !

 — with The Philadelphia Orchestra andYannick Nézet-Séguin.

The Symphony went through various incarnations before reaching the four movement version performed today. In November 1889, Mahler premiered a "Symphonic Poem in Two Parts" in Budapest, where he served at the time as director of the Royal Hungarian Opera. This five -movement composition was greeted with bewilderment and hostility. Mahler set about revising the work, now calling it "Titan, A Tone Poem in Form of a Symphony"  ( The title probably alludes to a once-famous novel by Jean Paul Richter.) 

Then Program for Mahler's concert on October on October 27, 1893, in Hamburg announced the following: 

Part 1. From the Days of Youth:   Flower, Fruit, and Thorn- pieces 

1. " Spring without End"  Introduction and Allegro comodo. The Introduction presents the awakening of nature form a long winter's sleep ! 
2. " Blumine" Andante
3. " Under Ful Sail"  Scherzo


Part 2, Commedia Humana

4 "Stranded! "     A funeral March in the manner of Callot
 Explanation : The external stimulus for this piece of music came to the composer from the satirical picture, known to all Austrian children's fairy tales;
The beasts of the forest accompany the dead woodman's coffin to the grave, with hares carrying a small banner, with a band of Bohemian musicians in front , and the procession escorted by music-making cats, toads, crows, etc., with stags, deer, foxes, and other four legged and feathered creatures of the forest in comic postures. At this point the piece is conceived as the expression of a mood now ironically marry , now weirdly brookin g, which isthen suddenly floowedby;
5. "Dall" Inferno a Paradiso Allegro furioso

The sudden ourburst of the despari of a deeply wounded heart !!