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Proms 2024
25 Jul 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg

Prom 9
Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg
19:30 Thu 25 Jul 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Third Symphony and Schoenberg’s sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht, before mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to Mahler’s devastating Kindertotenlieder.
Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Third Symphony and Schoenberg’s sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht, before mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to Mahler’s devastating Kindertotenlieder.

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Both Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert lost children. When Mahler came to set Rückert’s 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 ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg’s sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (‘Transfigured Night’), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony.

Broadcast live on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 3

Image: Alice Coote © Jiyang Chen