Prom 29: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler

5 Aug 2011, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 5 Aug 2011 Next Event

Proms 2011 Prom 29: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler

19:30 Fri 5 Aug 2011 Royal Albert Hall

Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel joins his old friends in the Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra to tackle a colossus 鈥� Mahler鈥檚 Symphony No. 2. This event has no seats remaining - check for returns closer to the date or Prom on the day for 拢5

Programme

- - Gustav Mahler
  - Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 鈥楻esurrection鈥�(85 mins)

Performers

Miah Persson
soprano
soprano
Anna Larsson
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel
conductor
conductor

Composers

Gustav Mahler

About this event

Now Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel - known by his own musicians as 'the Dude' - joins his old friends in the Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra and some mightily distinguished guests to tackle a colossus of the standard repertoire.

Writing for vast forces including offstage brass, two solo singers and a large choir, Mahler takes listeners on a spectacular journey through the entire gamut of emotions.

Beginning at the graveside, he remembers happier, busier and (spiritually) emptier times on the way to an apocalyptic revelation of the Day of Judgement. The promise of eternal life is then renewed in some of music's most uplifting pages.

There will be no interval