Daniele Rustioni signs off five years as Ulster Orchestra chief conductor with complex and challenging Mahler symphony
Daniele Rustioni signed off his five years as Ulster Orchestra chief conductor on Friday night
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The final concert of the Ulster Orchestra’s season to a packed audience in the Waterfront Hall on Friday was memorable on so many different levels that it is difficult to know where to begin.
First off there was the gargantuan 80-minute Second Symphony by Gustav Mahler with the weighty title of ‘Resurrection Symphony’ because it deals throughout with the issues of life and death which face every human being.
In this case Mahler, who had a deep Christian faith, also challenges us to think what happens after our time in this world.
This five-movement and complex symphony places considerable demands on the players, the singers and the conductor, all of whom more than met the challenges facing them on Friday evening.
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