Salzburg Festival 2018: Nelsons conducts Mahler and Zimmermann

The notion of passion, in music, initially referred to accounts of the suffering and death of Jesus. But would any form of art be conceivable without ardent passion and that kind of suffering which mobilizes creative forces as starting point for new artistic endeavours? Andris Nelsons presents a concert night which concentrates every conceivable passion: Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Trumpet Concerto, entitled "Nobody knows the trouble I see" - a protest against racism - and Mahler’s Second, ‘Resurrection’ Symphony. PROGRAM Zimmermann: Nobody knows de trouble I see - Concerto for trumpet and orchestra; Mahler: Symphony No.2 (Resurrection). A passionate rendition of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, "oscillating between dream and grotesque, between idyll and Hellmouth" (Wiener Zeitung).