Name: Proms 2015 Prom 49: Mahler – Symphony No. 6
Start: 2015-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andris Nelsons

Instrumentalist

Håkan Hardenberger

Trumpet

Proms 2015 Prom 49: Mahler – Symphony No. 6

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Dramatis Personae

Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"

Arshiya Banu

Approved

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new Music Director, Andris Nelsons, bring Mahler’s ‘Tragic’ Symphony to the Proms, paired with Brett Dean’s 'Dramatis personae'

Two contrasting heroes share the limelight in this evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae, composed for tonight’s Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. Mahler’s Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed hero – one, he explained, ‘on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled’. The conclusion may be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler’s wife Alma..

English

Proms 2015 Prom 49: Mahler – Symphony No. 6 by Dean, Mahler, Ó (2015/2015), Seoltóir Andris Nelsons, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ionstraimíocht

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid