About This Program

​Enter a realm where beauty and mortality intertwine in The Song of the Earth, a hauntingly intimate performance of Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn’s arrangement of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Scored for a reduced ensemble yet retaining every ounce of Mahler’s emotional depth, this rarely heard transcription brings clarity and immediacy to a masterpiece that meditates on life, loss, and the eternal. With its fusion of symphony and song, East and West, hope and despair, The Song of the Earth offers a deeply human experience that is at once fragile, powerful, and timeless.