Details
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Brett Dean – Dramatis Personae
~ Interval ~
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.6 in A minor
Performers
Hakan Hardenberger – trumpet
Andris Nelsons – Conductor
Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Two contrasting heroes share the limelight in this evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae, composed for tonight’s Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. Mahler’s Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed hero - one, he explained, ‘on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled’. The conclusion may be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler’s wife Alma.