Proms 2022 Prom 66: Beethoven, Betsy Jolas and Mahler
Prom 66: Beethoven, Betsy Jolas and Mahler
19:30
Mon 5 Sep 2022
Royal Albert Hall
Karina Canellakis conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s heaven-storming First Symphony, and a playful, typically imaginative, new piano concerto by living Franco-American genius Betsy Jolas.
Karina Canellakis conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s heaven-storming First Symphony, and a playful, typically imaginative, new piano concerto by living Franco-American genius Betsy Jolas.
Imagine if silence had a sound. That’s what the young Gustav Mahler tried to evoke in the massive stillness that opens his First Symphony – a whole world emerging into life, and a young artist walking out to find triumph, tragedy and (of course) love. But youth is a state of mind: expect surprises (and sounds) like you’ve never heard when the revered Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas riffs on the 21st-century listening culture of playlists and downloads in her inventive new concerto for pianist Nicolas Hodges. Karina Canellakis (hailed by The Times for her ‘freshly minted’ interpretations) conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra – and few living conductors are better equipped to channel fire from the gods in Beethoven’s Olympian overture.
