April 14th, 2010

NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM, Princeton, NJ

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 @ 8PM

Friends and rivals during their lifetimes, Mahler and Strauss opened spectacular new vistas in orchestral sound. The soaring vocal lines of Strauss’s lushly scored Four Last Songs surge with heartfelt emotion. Mahler’s haunting Fifth Symphony unfolds on a broad canvas with its intensity.

CHRISTOPH KÖNIG conductor

JENNIFER CHECK soprano

STRAUSS Four Last Songs

“Frühling”

“September”

“Beim Schlafengehen”

 “Im Abendrot”

JENNIFER CHECK soprano

~INTERMISSION~

MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor

Part I:

Trauermarsch

Stürmisch bewegt, mit grösster Vehemeng

Part II:

Scherzo

Part III:

Adagietto

Rondo – Finale