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Under its current chief, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra has been recovering its lost Mahler tradition.

Their second collaboration this year includes one of Mahler鈥檚 most perfectly realised works, 鈥榯he only Sixth, despite the 鈥淧astoral鈥濃�� in the words of Alban Berg.This is music of exceptional range and power, whose fateful hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahler鈥檚 own life and the wider world.

Our curtainraiser is an imposing and vibrant memorial to the dead of two world wars, a听 compositional trailblazer in its own right.

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Discover the Music Download a short audio guide published on the day about a key work in tonight鈥檚 Prom: Tom Service talks about Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.