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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine
John Adams – Saxophone Concerto
~ Interval ~
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.1 in D major 'Titan'
Performers
Timothy McAllister – alto saxophone
Marin Alsop – Conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Marin Alsop makes a welcome return following her triumph at last year’s Last Night, to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s First Symphony. Originally designated a ‘symphonic poem’, the work retains all the programmatic colour this suggests. A young hero travels through life, marvelling at nature and growing to maturity, but encountering the sorrows and conflicts of Fate at every turn.
Mahler’s long-limbed lyricism meets its match in the muscular drive of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto, written for virtuoso soloist Timothy McAllister, and his iconic orchestral miniature Short Ride in a Fast Machine, which pulses with anarchic life.