Prom 51: Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Time: 7.30pm - c9.15pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £10-£45 price code C or Prom for £5

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Claudio Abbado makes a welcome return to the Proms, leading the brilliant international orchestra he founded in 2003, which has at its core players from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Mahler's great symphonic tribute to nature sets an excerpt from Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra. After the apocalyptic Second Symphony ('Resurrection'), the Third represents the rise of man, in preparation for the 'Heavenly Life' of the Fourth.

Mahler

Symphony No. 3 in D minor (95 mins)

Anna Larsson mezzo-soprano
Trinity Boys' Choir
London Symphony Chorus (women’s voices)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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