London Symphony Orchestra

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

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Programme

Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)

Performers

London Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov	Conductor
Christianne Stotijn	Mezzo-soprano
Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus

Tickets £10 £15 £19.50 £27 £35

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Mahler’s Third Symphony: Transcendent nature

Bachtrack, 4th April

Hitoshi Imai, Principal Horn of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, talks about discovering and playing Mahler’s longest symphony, and its theme of reverence for nature.

An Outstanding Mahler Third from Bychkov and the LSO

David Karlin, 1st April

When Mahler wrote his Third Symphony, you couldn’t accuse him of lack of ambition. As well as making his usual demands for vast orchestral forces, Mahler intended to encapsulate the whole of creation within a single musical work. The result is a six-movement work that is gigantic in scale, especially the first movement, which takes over 40 minutes on its own.

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