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The Glasshouse, Gateshead

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Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 15:00
Robin Ticciati presents Mahler’s blockbuster journey from darkness to light. A trumpet sounds a fanfare, the orchestra cries out, and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony judders into life. But a symphony, said Mahler, must be like the world; and 70 minutes later the whole orchestra is storming the heavens in triumph. It’s a blockbuster journey from darkness to light, told in funeral marches, Viennese waltzes and of course, music’s sweetest love-letter – the rapturous Adagietto. But Robert Schumann knew a thing or... Read full text

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Musicians

Robin TicciatiConductor
Francesco PiemontesiPiano

Program

Piano ConcertoRobert Schumann
Symphony No. 5Gustav Mahler
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