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Prom 63: Mahler & John Adams

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, Londres, Greater London, SW7 2AP, Royaume-uni
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de London
Festival: BBC Proms
Artistes
Timothy McAllisterAlto Saxophone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin AlsopDirection

Marin Alsop makes a welcome return following her triumph at last year’s Last Night, to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s First Symphony. Originally designated a ‘symphonic poem’, the work retains all the programmatic colour this suggests. A young hero travels through life, marvelling at nature and growing to maturity, but encountering the sorrows and conflicts of Fate at every turn. Mahler’s long-limbed lyricism meets its match in the muscular drive of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto, written for virtuoso soloist Timothy McAllister, and his iconic orchestral miniature Short Ride in a Fast Machine, which pulses with anarchic life.

Seats  £7.50  to  £38  (plus  booking  fee).

BBC Proms