Vasily Petrenko conducts Elgar’s Sea Pictures
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This event took place on Sunday 29 May 2022.
- Sunday 29 May 2022
- Royal Festival Hall
Vasily Petrenko conducts Elgar’s Sea Pictures
Sun 29 May 2022
Need to know
Repertoire
- Elgar Sea Pictures
- Mahler Symphony No.6
Features
- Vasily Petrenko Conductor
- Kathryn Rudge Mezzo-soprano
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Location
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre,
Belvedere Road,
London
SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Tonight’s concert is one of epic scale. Opening the performance is Elgar’s Sea Pictures. Mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge joins the Orchestra for a performance of these evocative songs which depict the boundless scale and power of the sea.
Written only five years after Elgar composed Sea Pictures, the orchestration of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is vast, featuring massed brass, percussion and strings. This masterpiece end in tragedy – indeed, perhaps one of the most anguished endings of the entire repertoire; nevertheless, audiences have plenty of opportunity to experience the work’s beauty and joy in a dramatic musical journey before the Symphony reaches its fateful conclusion.
‘With her sensitivity to the text, freshness of timbre and secure vocal technique, [Rudge] once again proves herself a strongly intuitive interpreter of this repertoire.’ Gramophone on Kathryn Rudge and Vasily Petrenko performing Elgar's Sea Pictures
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