New Jersey Symphony: Mahlers Fifth Symphony
About This Event
At NJPAC the New Jersey Symphony performs Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony with cellist Gabriel Cabezas in the lineup. Mahler's Fifth moves between late‑Romantic orchestral breadth and abrupt shifts of mood, demanding structural clarity and large forces; Cabezas, whom the LA Times credited with coaxing an unusual range of sounds from the cello, joins the orchestra in that tense sonic landscape.
About Symphony No. 5(symphony)
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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (1804–08) distills conflict into a four-movement arc that moves from C minor severity toward a hard-won C major close. Its opening motif, pared to essentials, became a cultural shorthand for pressure and persistence. New York has lived with this piece for more than a century, from early Carnegie Hall seasons to its role as repertory bedrock for the city’s major orchestras. In this program at David Geffen Hall and NJPAC, Gustavo Dudamel places it alongside John Corigliano, setting a classical monument against a modern, historically specific response.
About the Artists
New Jersey Symphony
The New Jersey Symphony is a professional orchestra based in New Jersey, known for performing a wide range of classical and contemporary music.
Gabriel Cabezas
”Gabriel Cabezas' virtuosity includes getting the cello to make a whole host of amazing sounds you would never conjure coming from the instrument" — LA Times
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was an Austro‑Bohemian composer and a major conductor whose career moved between the opera house and the symphonic stage. His scores extend late‑Romantic orchestral tradition toward early modernist intensity, often using large forces and long spans of musical argument.