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Details

Trinity Church Centre
15 Nether Street
North Finchley

London
N12 7NN
England


Programme

Gustav MahlerSymphony no.4 in G major
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSelected opera arias
Richard WagnerSiegfried Idyll, WWV 103

Performers

Robert Hodge – Conductor
Emily Garland – soprano

Finchley Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

Mahler’s fourth symphony forgoes the heavy orchestral forces of his first three for lighter textures; it is also rather shorter.  The composer explores themes of childhood and innocence with a finale in which the soprano sings of a child’s vision of heaven, “the angelic voices gladden our senses, so that all awaken for joy.”

We keep to the childhood theme with ‘Siegfried Idyll’, a birthday present to Wagner’s wife Cosima after the birth of their son Siegfried.  It, too, inhabits a sound world very different from most of Wagner’s music.

Two splendid arias by Mozart complete our programme.  From one of his least known works, the unfinished opera ‘Zaide’, comes ‘Ruhe Sanft’.  Most of our audience will know ‘Dove sono’, one of the highlights of ‘The Marriage of Figaro’.

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