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Mahler and Brahms

Britten Sinfonia/Elder

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Mark Elder conducting on stage 2017

Brahms as Brahms wished it to be heard: Sir Mark Elder joins Britten Sinfonia for the second instalment of their Brahms Symphony Cycle, paired with Mahler songs and Britten’s last orchestral work.

Sir Mark Elder conducts Brahms’s radiant and bucolic 2nd symphony, in the second year of an acclaimed four-year symphony cycle.  The cycle borrows from the spirit of early performances of the works by performing them with the musical forces that Brahms intended, to ‘exhilarating’ effect (The Times). The concert also traces a poetic line from Brahms’s symphonic Romanticism to more intimate evocations of poetry, love and nature in Mahler’s emotionally charged Songs for a Wayfarer, and Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes, the composer’s last completed orchestral work.

Tagged with: Classical music Britten Sinfonia 2018–19

Programme

  • Britten   Suite on English Folk Tunes
  • Mahler   Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
  • Brahms   Symphony No 2

Performers

  • Britten Sinfonia  
  • Sir Mark Elder   conductor
  • Paula Murrihy*   mezzo-soprano

*The originally advertised mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany has had to withdraw from this performance due to illness. Britten Sinfonia is very grateful to Paula Murrihy who has agreed to take her place at short notice.

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