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.
You can include this concert as part of a 2024 Create Your Own Package and save up to 10%*!
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 2022. 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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Welcome to 2024
There’s a huge variety of experiences to choose from, including Mahler’s Symphonies, an Opera in Concert and an MGM musical. Join Chief Conductor Simone Young and a dazzling roster of guest artists in performances that unleash the power of music that is totally alive.
In 2024, discover an extraordinary season of concerts.
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