Name: Vienna Philharmonic – Mahler’s Sixth Symphony
Start: 2017-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Conductor

Daniel Harding

Orchestra

Wiener Philharmoniker

Vienna Philharmonic – Mahler’s Sixth Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Vienna Philharmonic – Mahler’s Sixth Symphony: Symphony No. 6 in A minor, ("Tragic") Mahler,G

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Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"

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If the Ninth Symphony is Mahler's musical 'dark night of the soul’, then the Sixth is the afternoon, dark with storm clouds, that preceded it. Although written at the happiest time of the composer’s life, the work builds gradually into a shattering frenzy of despair. ‘The hero,’ wrote Mahler, ‘is assaulted by three hammer-blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled.’ It was a musical vision that was to prove all too prescient for a composer who would soon suffer a series of life-changing personal heartbreaks.

The Sixth Symphony is a Viennese work, and who better to champion it than the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted here – in the first of its two appearances this season – by regular collaborator Daniel Harding.

Daniel Harding conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in this most powerful of Romantic symphonies, Mahler’s Sixth, dark with musical storm clouds, which builds gradually to a shattering climax

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Vienna Philharmonic – Mahler’s Sixth Symphony by Mahler, From (2017/2017), Conductor Daniel Harding, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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