Mahler’s Sixth Symphony With Payare 2024-2025
Rafael Payare pursues his Mahler cycle with the composer’s Symphony no.?6, while the rich and soulful voice of Beth Taylor illuminates Alma Mahler’s Leider.
Gustav Mahler’s surrender to the relentless march of time is conveyed in his tragic and introspective Sixth Symphony. In response to this deeply poignant work, Alma Mahler’s Lieder call forth with consummate artistry the memories of a life in which love and nature brought a measure of solace, rendered by the deep and soulful voice of young breakthrough artist Beth Taylor.
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare, conductor
Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano
Programme
Alma Mahler, Five Lieder (orch. C. & D. Matthews, 17 min.)
Intermission (20 min)
Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 6 in A minor, ‘‘Tragic’’ (79 min.)
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Rafael Payare
Music DirectorRafael Payare’s prodigious musicianship, technical brilliance and charismatic presence on the podium have made him one of the world’s most sought-after conductors. A graduate of the celebrated El Sistema music education program in Venezuela, Mr. Payare began his formal conducting studies in 2004 with José Antonio Abreu. Since winning the prestigious Malko International Competition for Young Conductors in Denmark in 2012, Maestro Payare’s career has advanced rapidly. Since 2015, he has served as Principal Conductor of the Castleton Festival, founded by his mentor the late Lorin Maazel. He was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra from 2014 to 2019 and in 2019, took up the position of Music Director of the San Diego Symphony. In recent years, Rafael Payare has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including those of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, London, Munich, Chicago and Paris. He has also made important opera debuts at the Glyndebourne Festival, Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, and most recently at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In the 2022-2023 season, Payare became the ninth Music Director in the history of the OSM.
To consult:
rafaelpayare.com
Long biography
Beth Taylor
Mezzo-sopranoOne of today’s most electrifying mezzo-sopranos, Beth Taylor appears regularly in events and venues such as the Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms, Glyndebourne, Berlin Festival, the opera houses of Zurich, Berlin, Frankfurt and Lyon, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie de Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and the Palau de la Musica of Barcelona and of Valencia. Her repertoire includes Bradamante (Alcina), Cornelia (Giulio Cesare), Arsace (Semiramide), La Cieca (La Gioconda), Anna (Les Troyens), Erda (Das Rheingold), Mahler’s Second Symphony, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Bach’s B minor Mass. She has worked with Maestros Gardiner, Gardner, Marcon, Metzmacher, Nelson, Pichon and Runnicles. Beth Taylor is a grand finalist of the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and the recipient of the 2022 Elizabeth Connell Award.
