“The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” GUSTAV MAHLER, 1907
CONCERT 1
CONCERT 2
Sunday, 11 October 2009 at 7.30pm
Sunday, 21 March 2010 at 7.30pm
Beethoven Symphony No.1 Berg Seven Early Songs Mahler Symphony No.1 ‘Titan’
Wagner Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser Richard Strauss Songs Beethoven Symphony No.7
HEIDI MELTON, soprano Donald Runnicles, conductor
Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles begins his first season at the helm of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with two great works from the Austro-German symphonic tradition. Runnicles and the BBC SSO have already given some memorable performances of Mahler together, at the Edinburgh International Festival and in London at the BBC Proms, and their interpretation of the magnificent First Symphony will be eagerly awaited. Influenced by both Mahler and Richard Strauss, Alban Berg’s lushly scored, late romantic songs complete this marvellous programme.
Christine Brewer, soprano Donald Runnicles, conductor
The international reputation of Donald Runnicles as a Wagner conductor has been forged in the world’s leading opera houses, from Vienna, Berlin and Bayreuth to New York and San Francisco. The wonderful overture and virtuosic Venusburg Music from Tannhäuser make a superb start to this programme which features one of the world’s finest sopranos, Christine Brewer, in a ravishing selection of songs by Richard Strauss. “The apotheosis of the dance” was how Wagner described the extraordinary rhythmic energy of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony - music that truly sounds as if it was conceived in a white heat of inspiration.
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