Live broadcast of my choir's performance of Mahler's 2nd Symphony ('Resurrection')

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My choir’s performance of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony (‘Auferstehungs’/‘Resurrection’) will be broadcast live from the Sydney Opera House next Monday night (28 November), in a concert starting at 7.00pm* Australian eastern daylight saving time. We’ll be singing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy.

I really love Mahler 2. I haven’t sung it since 2004, so it’s great to get back into it. The choir doesn’t have a lot to do (we don’t come in until about the 75th minute mark and then sing for only 10 minutes or so), but what we do have is lovely.

This time round we’re doing four performances and it’s the fourth performance that’s being broadcast. We had the first performance on Wednesday night. The review was positive, though not much was said about the choir.

If you’d like to listen, go to ABC Classic FM and click on the Listen Live link.

  • Start times for other locations

9.00pm New Zealand
6.30pm South Australia
6.00pm Queensland
5.30pm Northern Territory
4.00pm Western Australia
9.00am Western Europe
8.00am UK
3.00am Canada/US east coast
Midnight Canada/US west coast

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Did anyone happen to record this?

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It’s on the 28th.

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A bump because the broadcast starts in just under four hours.

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How’d it go? I didn’t get to listen, alas. I’m on the night shift and so was asleep.

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It went very well, I think.

If you click on this link you’ll get a video of the final movement, plus links to the other four movements too.