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English Symphony Orchestra in Cheltenham - Mahler and Richard Strauss
Featuring soprano April Fredrick
Part of the English Symphony Orchestra - Cheltenham Residency 2025 Season
Add to my Calendar 02-12-2025 19:30 02-12-2025 21:30 36 English Symphony Orchestra in Cheltenham - Mahler and Richard Strauss Composed in the difficult years just after World War II, Strauss’s final masterpiece could well have been a despairing, angry work. Instead, the Four Last Songs stand as one of music’s most inspiring expressions of gratitude – for long life, for long love and for a world abundant in music and nature.The Ninth Symphony of Strauss’s friend and contemporary, Gustav Mahler – his last completed work – sees the composer working through deep despair and resignation (shaken to the core by the sudden death of his daughter in 1907) towards a resolution which abounds in gratitude and love. Find full details of the ESO's Cheltenham Residency on Classical Events or refer to the ESO website. Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Cheltenham Town Hall
Imperial Square
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 1QA
England
Programme
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.9 (arr. for chamber ensemble by K Simon)
Performers
Kenneth Woods – Conductor
April Fredrick – soprano
English Symphony Orchestra
Programme Note
Composed in the difficult years just after World War II, Strauss’s final masterpiece could well have
been a despairing, angry work. Instead, the Four Last Songs stand as one of music’s most
inspiring expressions of gratitude – for long life, for long love and for a world abundant in music and nature.
The Ninth Symphony of Strauss’s friend and contemporary, Gustav Mahler – his last completed work – sees the composer working through deep despair and resignation (shaken to the core by the sudden death of his daughter in 1907) towards a resolution which abounds in gratitude and love.
Find full details of the ESO's Cheltenham Residency on Classical Events or refer to the ESO website.
