Usher HallEdinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2EA, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) | Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K488 | |
| Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) | Symphony no. 6 in A minor "Tragic" |
Performers
| Royal Scottish National Orchestra | |
| Thomas Søndergård | Conductor |
| Ingrid Fliter | Piano |
Art imitates life: it isn’t meant to happen the other way around. Mahler’s mighty Sixth Symphony imagines a hero destroyed by three devastating blows of fate. But after he’d completed this immense, tragic masterpiece, that’s exactly what happened to Mahler himself. It’s a musical experience that leaves no listener unmoved, so Thomas Søndergård begins with something altogether sunnier: the lovely Piano Concerto No23 by Mahler’s hero Mozart, played by RSNO favourite Ingrid Fliter.
