Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra plays Mahler and Strauss: With Conductor Graham Ross and Soprano Jennifer Witton at St John's Smith Square, London on Saturday 29th April 2023

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra plays Mahler and Strauss

With Conductor Graham Ross and Soprano Jennifer Witton

Add to my Calendar 29-04-2023 19:30 29-04-2023 21:30 36 Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra plays Mahler and Strauss Award Winning Soprano Jennifer Witton joins Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra with Conductor Graham Ross to perform Richard Strauss's immensely moving life reflections: Vier letzte Lieder. Written when he was 84, Strauss enjoyed a devotion to Lieder throughout his life and wrote over 200 deeply expressive songs. First performed eight months after the composer’s own passing, the soaring vocal lines and surging harmonies serve as an enduring depiction of spiritual triumph over death. “It sends shivers down my spine”, wrote Gustav Mahler after a performance of his First Symphony in 1896. Beginning with barely audible whispers of a spring dawn, there follows music that seems to have escaped from a Jewish wedding, a Viennese café, an uncanny funeral and an Alpine village dance. This much loved work presents us with a complex web of musical themes which influenced Mahler during his early life. ------------------------------------------------------------ In celebration of their first concert at St John Smith's Square, CGCO has teamed up with local businesses in the area to launch a Prize Draw. Tickets purchased for the draw will support the future of CGCO: bringing people together through inspirational music making. Tickets are only £2 and the draw closes on 19th April. Pass the link onto friends and family for this great cause, and great prizes to be won! Enter Here: www.cgco.org.uk/prize-draw     St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England

Saturday 29th April 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs, TrV 296
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.1 in D major 'Titan'

Performers

Jennifer Witton – soprano
Graham Ross – Conductor

Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra

Programme Note

Award Winning Soprano Jennifer Witton joins Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra with Conductor Graham Ross to perform Richard Strauss's immensely moving life reflections: Vier letzte Lieder. Written when he was 84, Strauss enjoyed a devotion to Lieder throughout his life and wrote over 200 deeply expressive songs. First performed eight months after the composer’s own passing, the soaring vocal lines and surging harmonies serve as an enduring depiction of spiritual triumph over death.

“It sends shivers down my spine”, wrote Gustav Mahler after a performance of his First Symphony in 1896. Beginning with barely audible whispers of a spring dawn, there follows music that seems to have escaped from a Jewish wedding, a Viennese café, an uncanny funeral and an Alpine village dance. This much loved work presents us with a complex web of musical themes which influenced Mahler during his early life.

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In celebration of their first concert at St John Smith's Square, CGCO has teamed up with local businesses in the area to launch a Prize Draw. Tickets purchased for the draw will support the future of CGCO: bringing people together through inspirational music making.

Tickets are only £2 and the draw closes on 19th April. Pass the link onto friends and family for this great cause, and great prizes to be won!

Enter Here: www.cgco.org.uk/prize-draw

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