Gustav Mahler once said that the symphony should be like the world – “it should embrace everything”. And in his huge Seventh Symphony, that’s exactly what it sounds like he’s trying to do. Every Mahler symphony is a great emotional journey; but this one sweeps from an overcast Alpine lake through lovesongs, nightmares and nocturnal marches to an ear-splitting finish hung with jangling cowbells and laced with pitch-black humour. In short: Mahler doesn’t get much more Mahlerian than this – just as Haydn’s quietly subversive 88th symphony sums up all its composer’s warmth and wit in a colourfully-painted nutshell. Thomas Dausgaard ends the season in a blaze of laughter and light.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Thomas Dausgaard introduces the final concert of the season and discusses composers and the roots of their music.
The main concert will be recorded for future broadcast on ±«Óătv Radio 3.
(this event is part of a Haydn/Mahler mini-celebration that also includes performances at City Halls
by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)