Name: Proms 2012 Prom 22: Mozart, Mahler & Knussen
Start: 2012-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

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BBC Philharmonic

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Gillian Keith

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Gianandrea Noseda

Proms 2012 Prom 22: Mozart, Mahler & Knussen

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

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Concert

Don Giovanni

Symphony No. 2

Symphony No. 7 in E Minor

Arshiya Banu

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After almost a decade at the helm of the BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (now returning as the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate) opens with Mozart’s famous overture, by turns solemn, impetuous and edgy.

Next we celebrate the 60th birthday of Oliver Knussen, one of British music’s great originals, who found an individual voice while still in his teens. From dreaming sleep to a dawn awakening, the Second Symphony (1971) takes us through a landscape of iridescent colour with a vocal line that soars to stratospheric heights.

Knussen’s nocturnal sequence finds a counterpart in the two ‘Night Music’ movements of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, his own all-encompassing journey from darkness to light.

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