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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg
Performance Date25 July 2024
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAlice Coote - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsRyan Wigglesworth
Set List'Symphony No. 3 in F major', Brahms,
INTERVAL,
'Verklärte Nacht', Schoenberg,
'Kindertotenlieder', Mahler
Performance NotesBoth Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert lost children. When Mahler came to set Rückert’s grief-stricken poems on the subject as his five Kindertotenlieder, he did so with music that appears emotionally stunned and radiantly consolatory.

Leading international mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to these devastating songs, after Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg’s sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (‘Transfigured Night’), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/44BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg25 July 2024
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1007Coote; Alice (1968-); British mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/1042Wigglesworth; Ryan (1979-); English composer, conductor, pianist
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