Oxford University Orchestra & Natalia Luis-Bassa - Mahler's 5th

Tickets £8 - £18

Programme:

Clyne - Masquerade
Debussy - Prelude à l'Aprés-Midi d'un Faune
Mahler - Symphony No.5

OUO’s long-time Principal Guest Conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa returns to the Sheldonian Theatre in a concert that features Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 as its centrepiece, continuing the successful relation that Luis-Bassa and OUO have established with Mahler’s symphonies over the years. As the composer once said, a symphony must be like the world, and his Fifth falls nothing short of that. A blockbuster journey of self-revelation from darkness to light, told in funeral marches, Viennese waltzes, and one of music’s sweetest love-letters, the Adagietto.

The concert will also feature Debussy’s iconic Prelude à l’aprés-midi d’un faune, whose idyllic flute solo sets the scene for Mallarmé’s poem, and Anna Clyne’s exuberant Masquerade, which evokes the lively promenade concerts of London’s 18th-century pleasure gardens.