An orchestral world-premiere without the composer in the concert-hall sometimes sadly occurred in the music history..., but a musical initiation into the world without the audience is definitively abnormal and this tells something about the era within which it was created... (read more). 

Despite the extreme times for most - and especially for the artists among of us, there is a grand work has done to bring a valued commission to birth: the companion piece to the 'majesty of orchestral work': Mahler's 'Das Lied von der Erde', the commission by the NTR ZaterdagMatinee for the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko.

Above is a remarkable, but still unforgettable view through the curtain of the empty hall, just a few moments before the magic is come… Touch the image to enter there.

With consolation