English Symphony Orchestra with April Frederick (soprano) and Kenneth Woods (conductor)
Sun 25 Jan
|St John’s Waterloo
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs (arr. James Ledger) Mahler – Symphony No.9 (arr. Klaus Simon)
25 Jan 2026, 18:00 GMT
St John’s Waterloo, Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8TY, UK
Strauss never heard his beautiful valedictory Four Last Songs in performance. Composed in 1948, he died before their premiere in London in 1950. Similarly, Mahler never lived to hear his Ninth Symphony, his last completed work, premiered in Vienna in 1912. Alban Berg wrote: “It expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, for Nature. The longing to live on it in peace, to enjoy it completely, to the very heart of one's being.” Klaus Simon’s highly praised arrangements of Mahler are in the spirit of those made in the 1920s for Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances, reducing the forces to a small chamber orchestra. James Ledger’s arrangement, similar in scope, was premiered in 2005 by Felicity Lotte, the Nash Ensemble, and Bernard Haitink.
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