Details
Tewkesbury Abbey
Church Street
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
GL20 5RZ
England
Tickets
Prices: £20 (students £10)
Book Tickets
Programme
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.6 in A minor
Performers
Glyn Oxley – Conductor
Jonathan Trim – Conductor
Stroud Symphony Orchestra
Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra
Programme Note
‘None of his works came as directly from his inmost heart as this.’ So said Mahler’s wife Alma of her husband’s Symphony No. 6, a score of such terrifying and ominous power that it came to spook even the composer himself. Across the symphony’s four movements we hear Mahler grappling with his own demise – clinging hopelessly to love, light and the beauty of life. The massed musicians of Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra and Stroud Symphony Orchestra join forces in Tewkesbury Abbey to take on Mahler’s gargantuan and grippingly intense work.
Coach transport from Stroud direct to Abbey, £15 (subject to sufficient numbers)
