The Mahler ExperimentHalbszenische Aufführung

Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 – up close, immersive, and alive.

This experiment explores the unique qualities of Mahler’s writing, in which the interplay between voices and sections of the orchestra is conversational, almost dramatic, as if he heard the different instruments as people, living the experience of the symphony.

You will hear Mahler’s masterpiece in changing surround-sound, finding yourself at the very heart of the music as its vast sonic world unfolds. From the hazy glow of the opening to the ferocious outcry of a storm, every moment is both felt and heard with exhilarating immediacy.This concert is a collaboration between Tony Award-winning theatre and opera director Tom Morris OBE (Breaking the Waves (EIF), Death of Klinghoffer (ENO/The Met), Orfeo (Vienna Statsoper), Othello, Dr Semmelweis, Touching the Void, War Horse (West End) and conductor Stephanie Childress, bringing her “controlled power and luminous musicianship” (The Hollywood Times) to this unmissable performance.