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21 May 2017, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
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麻豆社 SSO 2016-17 Season Dausgaard Conducts Mahler 7 in Edinburgh

麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Dausgaard Conducts Mahler 7 in Edinburgh
15:00 Sun 21 May 2017 Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by Haydn & Mahler in Edinburgh
Thomas Dausgaard conducts works by Haydn & Mahler in Edinburgh

Programme

Concert information

Gustav Mahler once said that the symphony should be like the world 鈥 鈥渋t should embrace everything鈥. And in his huge Seventh Symphony, that鈥檚 exactly what it sounds like he鈥檚 trying to do. Every Mahler symphony is a great emotional journey; but this one sweeps from an overcast Alpine lake through lovesongs, nightmares and nocturnal marches to an ear-splitting finish hung with jangling cowbells and laced with pitch-black humour. In short: Mahler doesn鈥檛 get much more Mahlerian than this 鈥 just as Haydn鈥檚 quietly subversive 88th Symphony sums up all its composer鈥檚 warmth and wit in a colourfully-painted nutshell. Thomas Dausgaard ends this Edinburgh series in a blaze of laughter and light.

Prelude: 2.00pm (free to ticket holders)
Thomas Dausgaard introduces the concert and discusses composers and the roots of their music.

The main concert will be recorded for future broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 3.