Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) | Don Giovanni, K527: Overture | |
| Knussen, Oliver (1952-2018) | Symphony no. 2 | |
| Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) | Symphony no. 7 |
Performers
| Gillian Keith | Soprano |
| Gianandrea Noseda | Conductor |
| BBC Philharmonic Orchestra |
After almost a decade at the
helm of the BBC Philharmonic,
Gianandrea Noseda (now
returning as the orchestra’s
Conductor Laureate) opens
with Mozart’s famous overture,
by turns solemn, impetuous
and edgy. Next we celebrate
the 60th birthday of Oliver
Knussen, one of British music’s great originals,
who found an individual voice while still in his
teens. From dreaming sleep to a dawn
awakening, the Second Symphony (1971) takes
us through a landscape of iridescent colour with
a vocal line that soars to stratospheric heights.
Knussen’s nocturnal sequence finds a
counterpart in the two ‘Night Music’ movements
of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, his own
all-encompassing journey from darkness to light.
helm of the BBC Philharmonic,
Gianandrea Noseda (now
returning as the orchestra’s
Conductor Laureate) opens
with Mozart’s famous overture,
by turns solemn, impetuous
and edgy. Next we celebrate
the 60th birthday of Oliver
Knussen, one of British music’s great originals,
who found an individual voice while still in his
teens. From dreaming sleep to a dawn
awakening, the Second Symphony (1971) takes
us through a landscape of iridescent colour with
a vocal line that soars to stratospheric heights.
Knussen’s nocturnal sequence finds a
counterpart in the two ‘Night Music’ movements
of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, his own
all-encompassing journey from darkness to light.
