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4 Aug 2014, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2014 Prom 24: Vaughan Williams & Mahler

Prom 24: Vaughan Williams & Mahler
Prom 24: Vaughan Williams & Mahler
18:30 Mon 4 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall
Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully today, 100 years after the start of the First World War. The concert sets Mahler’s bitterly elegiac Ninth Symphony against the ecstatic string writing of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, a work reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.
Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully today, 100 years after the start of the First World War. The concert sets Mahler’s bitterly elegiac Ninth Symphony against the ecstatic string writing of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, a work reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.

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In the second of his two concerts with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully, 100 years after the start of the First World War.

Written at the bleakest point in Mahler’s life, following the death of his daughter, his wife’s illness and the diagnosis of the disease that would quickly kill him, the Ninth Symphony gazes bitterly into the abyss, before bidding farewell to the world in its elegiac final movement.

The ecstatic string-writing of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis looks back to his musical forebears, reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.

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