Essentials: Schubert’s ‘Great Symphony’
Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Schubert’s Symphony No. 9
Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Schubert’s Ninth Symphony, a grand architectural marvel.
In the final months of his short life, Schubert’s boundless creative ambition resulted in a truly superlative symphony.
Concert programme
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9
Performers
About this concert
The Essentials series introduces you to the masterpieces you will be happy to know, performed by the world-famous Concertgebouw Orchestra and complete with a lively introduction by the incomparable Thomas Vanderveken. At Essentials we welcome a new generation of music lovers, and the concerts typically have a pleasant informal atmosphere.
The young Russian conductor Maxim Emelyanychev leads Schubert’s Ninth Symphony, known as the ‘Great’ – and for good reason. In the hugely productive final months of his short life, Schubert’s boundless creative ambition resulted in a truly superlative symphony.
When Robert Schumann discovered the work in a drawer at Schubert’s brother’s house after the composer’s death, he exulted at its ‘heavenly length’. Indeed, it is a grand architectural marvel which builds on Beethoven, quoting his Ninth Symphony, yet also seems to prefigure Bruckner.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
The Essentials series introduces you to the masterpieces you will be happy to know, performed by the world-famous Concertgebouw Orchestra and complete with a lively introduction by the incomparable Thomas Vanderveken. At Essentials we welcome a new generation of music lovers, and the concerts typically have a pleasant informal atmosphere.
The young Russian conductor Maxim Emelyanychev leads Schubert’s Ninth Symphony, known as the ‘Great’ – and for good reason. In the hugely productive final months of his short life, Schubert’s boundless creative ambition resulted in a truly superlative symphony.
When Robert Schumann discovered the work in a drawer at Schubert’s brother’s house after the composer’s death, he exulted at its ‘heavenly length’. Indeed, it is a grand architectural marvel which builds on Beethoven, quoting his Ninth Symphony, yet also seems to prefigure Bruckner.