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Gustav Mahler Jugenorchester, Sir Colin Davis, Proms

Gustav Mahler Jugenorchester, Sir Colin Davis, Proms

Date: 
Wednesday, 24 August, 2011 - 18:00
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements (20 mins) Ravel Shéhérazade (17 mins) INTERVAL Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor (42 mins) Susan Graham mezzo-soprano Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Sir Colin Davis conductor About this event A great youth orchestra and a distinguished and much-loved conductor. The programme begins with Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, partly inspired by newsreel footage of the Second World War. A long standing favourite of Sir Colin's, it is a work he first conducted at the Proms all of 50 years ago. The biggest piece is Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, in which the composer grapples with a malign Fate and, in his coruscating finale, makes use of a well-known Russian folk song. Before the interval, Ravel's exotic, ambiguous Shéhérazade is sung by Susan Graham, a supreme interpreter of the cycle.