Online: English Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No 9 arr. chamber ensemble: Conducted by Kenneth Woods at Online Event, Monmouth on Wednesday 7th July 2021

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Online: English Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No 9 arr. chamber ensemble

Conducted by Kenneth Woods

Part of the Music from Wyastone – Studio Concert Series 2021

Add to my Calendar 07-07-2021 19:30 07-07-2021 21:30 36 Online: English Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No 9 arr. chamber ensemble The English Symphony Orchestra (ESO) will release their most ambitious digital performance to date on 7th July, when they present a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.9 in celebration of the Austrian composer’s 161st birthday. The performance is conducted by the ESO’s Artistic Director, Kenneth Woods; one of today’s leading Mahler interpreters and authorities who also serves as Artistic Director of Colorado MahlerFest. “The symphony must be like the whole world, it must embrace everything” said composer Gustav Mahler. With this in mind, Mahler made the writing of symphonies his life’s work, hugely expanding both the scope and scale of the genre. And with some of these works requiring huge forces, Mahler’s music would seem ill-suited to the Covid era. But a tradition of performances of Mahler’s work by small chamber ensembles dates back over one hundred years to the Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna, where Mahler’s friend and protégé, Arnold Schoenberg, organised performances of several of Mahler’s major works for groups of 9-15 players. An arrangement of the Symphony No.9 was made by composer and conductor Klaus Simon in 2012. Composed in the summer of 1909 in Mahler’s summer house in Toblach, the Symphony No. 9 was Mahler’s last completed work, and the composer did not live to see it performed. It has since come to be viewed as possibly the ‘Everest’ of symphonic music. Mahler’s friend, composer Alban Berg, wrote of the piece that “I have once more played through Mahler's Ninth. The first movement is the most glorious he ever wrote. It expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, for Nature. The longing to live on it in peace, to enjoy it completely, to the very heart of one's being, before death comes, as irresistibly it does.”How to listenAccess to the concert is via the event website. The performance is available free-to-view for four days and afterwards through the ESO digital archive where unlimited access to subscribers offers the complete archive of virtual performances. Online Event, Monmouth DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Online Event
Wyastone Concert Hall
Wyastone Leys
Monmouth
Monmouthshire
NP25 3SR
Wales

Wednesday 7th July 2021
7:30 PM

Programme

Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.9 (arr. for chamber ensemble by K Simon)

Performers

Kenneth Woods – Conductor

English Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

The English Symphony Orchestra (ESO) will release their most ambitious digital performance to date on 7th July, when they present a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.9 in celebration of the Austrian composer’s 161st birthday. The performance is conducted by the ESO’s Artistic Director, Kenneth Woods; one of today’s leading Mahler interpreters and authorities who also serves as Artistic Director of Colorado MahlerFest.

“The symphony must be like the whole world, it must embrace everything” said composer Gustav Mahler. With this in mind, Mahler made the writing of symphonies his life’s work, hugely expanding both the scope and scale of the genre. And with some of these works requiring huge forces, Mahler’s music would seem ill-suited to the Covid era.

But a tradition of performances of Mahler’s work by small chamber ensembles dates back over one hundred years to the Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna, where Mahler’s friend and protégé, Arnold Schoenberg, organised performances of several of Mahler’s major works for groups of 9-15 players. An arrangement of the Symphony No.9 was made by composer and conductor Klaus Simon in 2012.

Composed in the summer of 1909 in Mahler’s summer house in Toblach, the Symphony No. 9 was Mahler’s last completed work, and the composer did not live to see it performed. It has since come to be viewed as possibly the ‘Everest’ of symphonic music. Mahler’s friend, composer Alban Berg, wrote of the piece that “I have once more played through Mahler's Ninth. The first movement is the most glorious he ever wrote. It expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, for Nature. The longing to live on it in peace, to enjoy it completely, to the very heart of one's being, before death comes, as irresistibly it does.”

How to listen
Access to the concert is via the event website. The performance is available free-to-view for four days and afterwards through the ESO digital archive where unlimited access to subscribers offers the complete archive of virtual performances.

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