Baltimore Symphony: Mahler & Klezmer

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, March 12, 2023 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (EDT)

The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD, United States

$35-$90

Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin
Fabien Gabel, guest conductor

Samuel Adler / Noah Bendix-Balgley — Fidl-Fantazye: A Klezmer Concerto
Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 5

Mahler floods the ear and heart with every conceivable human emotion in the inexhaustible Fifth Symphony, a work he himself described as a "foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound." Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, shows off another talent as the composer of a Klezmer fantasy filled with the wailing cries and stomping dances of this intoxicating folk style. The French maestro Fabien Gabel guides the way through an uber-emotional program with sure-handed grace.