Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra performs Mahler. at Clifton Cathedral, Bristol on Saturday 13th July 2019

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Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra performs Mahler.

Add to my Calendar 13-07-2019 19:45 13-07-2019 21:45 36 Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra performs Mahler. The three pieces that we perform in this concert were written within 3 years of each other between 1901 and 1904 by composers entirely different in so many ways but who shared a great respect for each other. Inspired by stories heard on holiday in Cornwall of the isolated communities in Cornwall who lured ships onto the rocks of the coast and the attempts by their Wesleyan ministers to stop them, Dame Ethel Smyth's opera, The Wreckers is considered to be "the most powerful English opera between Dido and Aeneas and Peter Grimes." Dame Ethel Smyth was an ardent supporter of the suffragette movement, as well as a golfer, cyclist, mountaineer, adventurer, writer and an outspoken lesbian. She was also the first female composer to be granted a damehood. In this concert, we perform the Overture and Prelude to Act 2 from the opera.Dame Ethel Smyth commented of Gustav Mahler, he was "far and away the finest conductor I ever knew". In 1907, Mahler was considering a production of the Wreckers at the Vienna State Opera before he was forced out. By then Mahler had written his Symphony No. 5 - composed between 1901 and 1902. It is huge in many respects, beginning with a funeral march and ending with a triumphant rondo. It requires large orchestral resources. It lasts for over an hour. There are solos for trumpets, horns and strings to name but a few. It also includes the haunting adagietto, so familiar from the film score of "Death in Venice". It is not to be missed. Clifton Cathedral, Bristol DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Clifton Cathedral
Clifton Park
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 3BX
England

Saturday 13th July 2019
7:45 PM

Programme

Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers Overture
Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers: Prelude to Act II 'On the Cliffs of Cornwall'
~ Interval ~
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor

Performers

Michael Cobb – Conductor

Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra

Programme Note

The three pieces that we perform in this concert were written within 3 years of each other between 1901 and 1904 by composers entirely different in so many ways but who shared a great respect for each other.

Inspired by stories heard on holiday in Cornwall of the isolated communities in Cornwall who lured ships onto the rocks of the coast and the attempts by their Wesleyan ministers to stop them, Dame Ethel Smyth's opera, The Wreckers is considered to be "the most powerful English opera between Dido and Aeneas and Peter Grimes." Dame Ethel Smyth was an ardent supporter of the suffragette movement, as well as a golfer, cyclist, mountaineer, adventurer, writer and an outspoken lesbian. She was also the first female composer to be granted a damehood. In this concert, we perform the Overture and Prelude to Act 2 from the opera.

Dame Ethel Smyth commented of Gustav Mahler, he was "far and away the finest conductor I ever knew". In 1907, Mahler was considering a production of the Wreckers at the Vienna State Opera before he was forced out. By then Mahler had written his Symphony No. 5 - composed between 1901 and 1902. It is huge in many respects, beginning with a funeral march and ending with a triumphant rondo. It requires large orchestral resources. It lasts for over an hour. There are solos for trumpets, horns and strings to name but a few. It also includes the haunting adagietto, so familiar from the film score of "Death in Venice". It is not to be missed.

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