Marc Minkowski’s recent live recordings of Schubert’s symphonies were acclaimed for their lithe energy, transparency and balance. He opens this concert with the Fourth, a work of the composer’s youth, when, Minkowski has said: ‘Schubert’s thought … was situated outside reality, in the tumultuous imagination of a young man, at the frontiers of the possible.’ Mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus joins the Â鶹Éç SO for Mahler’s poignant early song cycle, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ‘(Songs of a Wayfaring Lad'), in which a grief-struck young lover reflects on his fate. There’s a familiar dream-like quality to the music of Mahler’s short-lived Austrian contemporary, Hans Rott, of whom Mahler declared, ‘His genius soars to such heights even in his First Symphony, which makes him … the Founder of the new symphony as I understand it.’
Â鶹Éç SO Plus Intro
6.00pm Fountain Room
William Mival (Head of Composition, Royal College of Music) gives a free introduction to the music in tonight’s concert.
Please note: Roderick Williams, who was originally advertised, will not be taking part in this concert.
