Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg

25 Jul 2024, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Thu 25 Jul 2024 Next Event

Proms 2024 Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg

19:30 Thu 25 Jul 2024 Royal Albert Hall

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Brahms鈥檚 Third Symphony and Schoenberg鈥檚 sumptuous tone-poem Verkl盲rte Nacht, before mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to Mahler鈥檚 devastating Kindertotenlieder.

Programme

- - Johannes Brahms
  - Symphony No. 3 in F major(38 mins)
- - interval
- - Arnold Schoenberg
  - Verkla虉rte Nacht(30 mins)
- - Gustav Mahler
  - Kindertotenlieder(27 mins)

Performers

Alice Coote
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Both Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Ru虉ckert lost children. When Mahler came to set Ru虉ckert鈥檚 grief-stricken poems on the subject as his five Kindertotenlieder, he did so with music that appears emotionally stunned and radiantly consolatory. Leading international mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to these devastating songs, after Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg鈥檚 sumptuous tone-poem Verkla虉rte Nacht (鈥楾ransfigured Night鈥�), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony.

Broadcast live on 麻豆社 Radio 3

Image: Alice Coote 漏 Jiyang Chen

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