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Mahler?s 6th Symphony is an epic round off to our season!
This symphony is a mythical piece. Mahler may or may not have subtitled it ?Tragic? at some stage of its composition, and it could possibly contain music that consecrates and depicts his wife Alma.
It has been referred to as ?the first nihilist work in the history of music?, and other conductors have found the piece too expressively dark to conduct, since it ?ends in hopelessness and the dark night of the soul?. Most significantly, it?s a work sometimes seen as prophetically autobiographical, above all in its final fourth movement, with hallucinogenic, emotional nightmare-scape.
When he revised the piece in 1906, Mahler deleted the third of the movement?s hammer-blows ? a literal thumping of a gigantic box with a wooden sledge-hammer ? supposedly because he was trying to avoid a three-fold jinx of fate. His revisions were futile ? the next year in 1907, Mahler had to cope with the death of his daughter, the end of his relationship with the Vienna State Opera, and the diagnosis of the fatal heart condition that would kill him four years later.
Despite the pieces dark connections it is viewed as a truly epic masterpiece, with huge woodwind and brass sections out in force, as well as LGSO percussion taking a staring role with the hammer-blows.
Book now to join us for this phenomenal ending to our season!
Conductor: Christopher Braime
Leader: Corey Wickens
Fore Street,
Cripplegate,
London,
Greater London,
England,
EC2Y 8DA.
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