Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) | Symphony no. 8 in B minor "Unfinished", D.759 | |
| Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) | Das Lied von der Erde |
Performers
| Josep Pons | Conductor |
| Philharmonia Orchestra | |
| Robert Dean Smith | Tenor |
| Catherine Wyn-Rogers | Mezzo-soprano |
‘I believe this is the most personal thing I have done.’ So wrote Mahler, devastated by the sudden death of his daughter Anna Maria and the swift diagnosis of his own incurable heart disease. Das Lied hovers elegiacally between song and symphony, placing our own transience and mortality against the constant renewal and regeneration of the earth. Alongside, the most popular symphony from another Viennese composer: Schubert’s Unfinished.
