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![Prom 9 - Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg archive](/resize.php?p=images/genre/GC2.jpg&maxx=100&maxy=150)
Part of the BBC Proms. Both Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert lost children. When Mahler came to set Rückert's grief-stricken poems on the subject as his five Kindertotenlieder, he did so with music that appears emotionally stunned and radiantly consolatory. Leading international mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to these devastating songs, after Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg's sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht ('Transfigured Night'), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony. There will be an interval.
Cast/Performers
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Creatives/Company
Company:
BBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraConductor:
Ryan Wigglesworth