Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern

9 Aug 2018, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Thu 9 Aug 2018 Next Event

Proms 2018 Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern

19:30 Thu 9 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra take a journey from the aphoristic brilliance of Webern through the bittersweet beauty of Mahler鈥檚 unfinished Tenth Symphony, to Wagner鈥檚 expansive music-drama Die Walk眉re.

Performances & Interviews

21:10

Stephen Fry and Wagner

An introduction to Wagner's Die Walk眉re

Aug '18麻豆约拍 Radio 3

Programme

- - Anton Webern
  - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10(6 mins)
- - Gustav Mahler
  - Symphony No 10 鈥� Adagio(24 mins)
- - interval
- - Richard Wagner
  - Die Walk眉re 鈥� Act 1(66 mins)

Performers

Anja Kampe
Sieglinde
Sieglinde
Robert Dean Smith
Siegmund
Siegmund
Franz-Josef Selig
Hunding
Hunding
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

The Philharmonia Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen take a musical journey from aphorism to epic.

Barely six minutes long, Webern鈥檚 Five Pieces for Orchestra distils expression down to its most concentrated form, every musical gesture carrying infinite weight and colour.

By contrast, Wagner鈥檚 Die Walk眉re, the second instalment of his monumental Ring cycle, explores musical expansion and amplitude, offering an all-consuming vision of illicit love.

At the midpoint is the Adagio from Mahler鈥檚 10th Symphony 鈥� music that grasps towards eternity and immortality but that was to remain tragically unfinished at the composer鈥檚 death.

Image: Esa-Pekka Salonen 漏 Benjamin Suomela