| sábado 24 octubre 2026 | 19:30 |
| Miller, Cassandra (n. 1976) | Swim | |
| Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) | Concierto para violín en mi menor, Op.64 | |
| Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) | Sinfonía núm. 4 en sol mayor |
| BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| John Storgårds | Dirección |
| Alina Ibragimova | Violín |
| Sheva Tehoval | Soprano |
If Mahler’s first three world-encapsulating symphonies come from an adult’s point of view, his fourth wonders how a child’s perspective might be different. But the childhood dreams Mahler weaves are not all naïve. Though we eventually arrive at Mahler’s childlike vision of heaven – In Das himmlische Leben, the part he composed first – menace and terror are present too.
To create Swim, Cassandra Miller took two chords by Robert Schumann, repeated them until they blurred, and then took them through a series of variations as suggested in an essay on swimming by the poet Anne Carson. Miller’s abiding image – of Robert Schumann, swimming in Carson’s Canadian lake – could only come from the mind of a committed dreamer.
In 1838, Felix Mendelssohn wrote to violinist Ferdinand David, describing ‘an E-minor theme that keeps running through my head, preventing me from thinking about anything else.’ From Mendelssohn’s dream came one of the great violin concertos.
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