Name: Proms 2016 Prom 64: Berlin Philharmonic And Sir Simon Rattle – Boulez And Mahler
Start: 2016-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Proms 2016 Prom 64: Berlin Philharmonic And Sir Simon Rattle – Boulez And Mahler

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

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Concert

Éclat/Multiples

Symphony No. 7 in E Minor

Arshiya Banu

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Rattle pairs Mahler’s Seventh Symphony with Éclat, a work written in 1965 by the legendary French composer and conductor, Pierre Boulez, who died earlier this year.

Sir Simon Rattle brings his Berlin Philharmonic to the Proms for two concerts, the first falling on the day the festival commemorates the towering genius that was the late Pierre Boulez. Here Boulez’s kaleidoscopic Éclat forms a prelude to perhaps Gustav Mahler’s most radical symphony, a work in which his musical imagination stormed new territories in its fierce harmonies and wild scoring. In the symphony’s celebrated ‘Night Music’ serenades – eerie yet strangely calming nocturnes for orchestra, one hinging on a gently strumming guitar and mandolin – Mahler appears to look to a realm far beyond his own.

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Ensemble