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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 47: Mäkelä Conducts Mahler’s Fifth
Performance Date23 August 2025
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time20:00
Orchestra or BandRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra
ConductorsKlaus Mäkelä
Set List'Rendering', Berio

Interval

'Symphony No. 5', Mahler
Performance Notes‘Mahler that risks nothing is not worth hearing,’ Klaus Ma¨kela¨ has declared. Still in his twenties, the electrifying Finnish conductor already leads top orchestras in Oslo and Paris, with Chicago and Amsterdam soon to come. Hear him at the Proms for the first time as Chief Conductor Designate of the mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is a tumultuous journey from the darkness of a funeral march to brilliant light via the famous Adagietto – the tenderest musical love letter in the repertoire. It sits alongside Berio’s delicate ‘rendering’ of Schubert’s unfinished D major Symphony, a musical palimpsest and sonic fantasy.

Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
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