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Royal
Albert
Hall
Sun da.y 15th Ma.y 2011 7.30 pm
Mahler’s Eighth Symphony
15th May 2011 at 7.30pm
As its title suggests, Mahler's 8th Symphony,
famous surroundings will enhance the music
the Symphony ofa Thousanad, is composed on
magnificently, adding to the atmosphere and
an epic scale. The work is conceived in two
glorious sense of occasion.
immense movements: the first an imposing
Mahler thought that his symphonies should
setting of the Latin hymn Veni Creator Spiritus,
contain the world; certainly his Eighth takes the
the
second
a dramatic,
quasi-operatic
listener on an earthly and heavenly journey of
re-
working of the final scene from Goethe's Faust.
monumental proportions.
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orchestra
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off-stage
brass,
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huge
choruses, a children’s choir and eight soloists.
Claire Seaton, Elisabeth Meister and Helen Neeves
Any building staging such a grand conception
should also be built on a magnificent scale: the
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Royal Albert Hall is just such a space.
From the striking opening organ chords to
Pre-concert talk
Mezzosopranos
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Adrian Thompson
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the majestic, all-encompassing finale, these
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Booking Information
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‘The universe bursts into song:
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Telephone: 020 7589 8212 (9am-9pm daily)
Mabhler and his Eighth Symphony’
6.00 to 6.45pm in the auditorium
Jeremy Barham is an international expert on
£40
Front Arena
£30
Loggia Boxes
£38
Rear Arena
£20
£38 Front Circle
£15
Side Stalls
He has contributed to
(seat8)
£30
2nd Tier Boxes (seat 5 or 8) £30
Rear Circle
Restricted view
OUP’s The Mahler Companion,
Booking fees apply to all telephone and online bookings.
is editor of both
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP.
The Cambridge Companion to Mahler
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Online: www.royalalberthall.com
Grand Tier Boxes (seat 12)
Stalls
the music of Gustav Mahler.
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£10
£5
Nearest Underground stations are:
and Ashgate’'s
South Kensington & High Street Kensington.
Perspectives on Gustav Mabhler,
To book a car parking space please call the Box Office,
and is currently completing a monograph on
or for disabled access please call 020 7838 3110.
Mahler's cultural significance.
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Jeremy is the Senior Lecturer in Music at the
University of Surrey, where he is convening a
conference on the composer in July 2011,
During this commemorative Mahler season,
Jeremy has also given a series of five preconcert talks for the LPO at the Royal Festival
Hall, has led study days for the LSO and the
Mahler Society UK, and has been invited to
speak at conferences in Germany and Canada.
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