Simone Young conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
Season Opening Gala
In a celebrated Sydney tradition, Chief Conductor Simone Young opens our season with one of Mahler’s sublime symphonies in a concert of passionate and electrifying music.
Duration
The concert will end at approximately 10:15pm (Wednesday. Friday and Saturday) and 3:45pm (Thursday). Latecomers might be admitted during a suitable break in the performance and will be guided to first available seats.
Pre-Concert
Join us for the pre-concert talk, including a conversation with composer Camille Pépin, 45 minutes before the performances in the Northern Foyer, by Francis Merson.
Concert Guide
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The blazing energy of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is truly breathtaking live.
Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is an extraordinary creation in both sound and scale. This vast musical journey builds from a luminous fanfare from a single trumpet to moments of great explosive power and a poignant contemplation of love in the Adagietto – one of the best-loved movements in all of music. Under the dynamic direction of Simone Young, Mahler’s vast architecture is revealed, and his stunning colours burn bright.
A rising star, French composer Camille Pépin has created an enchanting expression of life’s technicolour with her Violin Concerto. A work of long, shimmering chords, suspended and weightless, has a peerless interpreter in Renaud Capuçon, who, together with Simone Young, gave the world premiere of the work with the Orchestre National de France in April 2023. Co-commissioned by the Sydney Symphony, it’s our turn to hear this duo deliver Pépin’s compelling new work.
Program
Camille PÉPIN Le Sommeil a pris ton empreinte: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
MAHLER
Symphony No.5
Artists
SIMONE YOUNG conductor
RENAUD CAPUÇON violin
Series Presenting Partner
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