This year, the London Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates the musical genius and legacy of great Austrian composer, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

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R Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Mahler Rückert-Lieder
Ravel Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Daphnis et Chloé

 A sense of withdrawal from the world – a mood of nostalgia and nobility established by the great late-Romantic song-writer Richard Strauss – seems to arrive in Mahler’s setting for voice and orchestra of five poems by Friedrich Rückert. ‘I am dead to the world’s commotion and at peace in a still land’, sings Mahler’s soprano over a delicate harp-seasoned orchestra. In Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloë suites there are some of the most startling orchestral effects ever conceived, and yet still, a very individual sense of nostalgia: in Ravel’s swirling surges, glowing textures and excitable orchestral rallyings is a delicate, naive innocence from a man whose childhood was a paradise lost.

Kazushi Ono conductor
Nathalie Stutzmann contralto

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Tickets: £9 – 38 (Premium seats £55)
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