Name: Proms 2024 Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms And Schoenberg
Start: 2024-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth

Singer

Alice Coote

Soloist

Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Proms 2024 Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms And Schoenberg

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Private

Concert

Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90

Verklärte Nacht op. 4

Songs on the Death of Children

Rahul Karaguppi

Approved

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 BBC 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.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble