Event listing: Philharmonia Orchestra | Anvil, Basingstoke | jue 21 abr 2011 at 19:45

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Danny Riley, 29th November

It was described as “the first nihilist work in the history of music” by the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. We look at the story behind Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.

“Yet another hard nut ... ”

Andrew Benson-Wilson, 21st April

“My Sixth seems to be yet another hard nut, one that our critics' feeble little teeth cannot crack”. It will “propound riddles the solution of which may be attempted only by a generation which has absorbed and truly digested my first five symphonies.”. So wrote Mahler in letters to the Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Austrian writer and musicologist Richard Specht respectively.

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