New Jersey Symphony: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

Christoph Konig made his American debut in 2009 conducting the New Jersey Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, and now, one of the orchestra’s closest musical friends, he returns to the piece that started it all. Mahler, considered by many the last great Romantic symphonist, managed to bridge the Romanticism of the 19th century with the modernism of the 20th, and his nine symphonies each demand the highest degree of virtuosity from the orchestra, expanding the scale of orchestral music to near-bursting point. The program also features the world premiere of a Cello Concerto by Resident Artistic Partner Allison Loggins-Hull, a New Jersey Symphony commission, with soloist Gabriel Cabezas, giving audiences the chance to be among the first to hear the newly commissioned work performed live before the evening turns to Mahler’s monumental, life-and-death-spanning masterpiece.