Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Festspiel: BBC Proms
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| Sir Roger Norrington | Musikalische Leitung |
Sir Roger Norrington has chosen Mahler’s last completed symphony for his final concerts as Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, a post he has held since 1998.
Written at a time of personal crisis, the Ninth begins with what some have heard as the irregular rhythm of Mahler’s own failing heartbeat and it ends with a long fade to eternal nothingness. In between comes perhaps the greatest, certainly the most cathartic, of all late- Romantic symphonies. Sadly, the composer did not live to hear it.
Tonight’s performance promises to be both a moving occasion and a revealing one, taking up the faster pacing and purer orchestral sonorities of the composer’s own time.
Written at a time of personal crisis, the Ninth begins with what some have heard as the irregular rhythm of Mahler’s own failing heartbeat and it ends with a long fade to eternal nothingness. In between comes perhaps the greatest, certainly the most cathartic, of all late- Romantic symphonies. Sadly, the composer did not live to hear it.
Tonight’s performance promises to be both a moving occasion and a revealing one, taking up the faster pacing and purer orchestral sonorities of the composer’s own time.
