Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
| Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992) | Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, for orchestra | |
| Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) | Symphony no. 6 in A minor "Tragic" |
Performers
| Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | |
| Riccardo Chailly | Conductor |
Under its current chief,
the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra has been
recovering its lost
Mahler tradition. Their
second collaboration this
year includes one of
Mahler’s most perfectly
realised works, ‘the only
Sixth, despite the
“Pastoral”’ in the words
of Alban Berg. This is
music of exceptional
range and power, whose
fateful hammer-blows
seem to portend the crises in Mahler’s own
life and the wider world. Our curtainraiser
is an imposing and vibrant
memorial to the dead of two world
wars, a compositional trailblazer in
its own right.
the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra has been
recovering its lost
Mahler tradition. Their
second collaboration this
year includes one of
Mahler’s most perfectly
realised works, ‘the only
Sixth, despite the
“Pastoral”’ in the words
of Alban Berg. This is
music of exceptional
range and power, whose
fateful hammer-blows
seem to portend the crises in Mahler’s own
life and the wider world. Our curtainraiser
is an imposing and vibrant
memorial to the dead of two world
wars, a compositional trailblazer in
its own right.
