Maazel: Mahler Cycle 2011

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

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Programme

Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)

Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"

Performers

Philharmonia Orchestra
Lorin Maazel	Conductor
Sally Matthews	Soprano
Michelle DeYoung	Mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Chorus

Scored for a vast orchestra, including ten horns, eight trumpets and an off-stage brass band, together with two solo singers and massed voices, the monumental Resurrection Symphony opens in the darkness of death and moves through the gamut of emotions, to a visionary choral finale in which the heavens open.

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The Meaning of Life?

Andrew Benson-Wilson, 21st April

I sometimes wonder what it must have been like to have been at the first performance of today’s well-known master works. Bach’s St John Passion, for example, or Beethoven’s Eroica and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring – and Mahler’s second symphony, the Resurrection.

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