BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018-19 Season Sakari Oramo conducts Larcher and Mahler - BBC Symphony Orchestra

24 May 2019, Barbican, London

19:30 Fri 24 May 2019 Next Event

Sakari Oramo conducts Larcher and Mahler

19:30 Fri 24 May 2019 Barbican, London

An all-Viennese programme closes the season with the powerful musical statement that is Mahler’s Seventh Symphony – an orchestral ‘Night-Song’ of luminous intensity and beauty.

Programme

- - Thomas Larcher
  - ChiasmaUK premiere
- - Gustav Mahler
  - Symphony No. 7

Performers

Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Composers

About This Event

Cowbells, guitar and tubular bells all add their colours to Mahler’s shadowy, phantasmagorical vision of night, with its sinister central scherzo and the sober, night-time procession of the Andante, before darkness is swept away in the bright blaze of the finale. A UK premiere by Thomas Larcher opens the concert. Chiasma is the third and final piece in this season’s mini-focus on the free-thinking Austrian composer.