Saturday 13th November 2010 at 7:45pm

Beethoven

Berlioz ‘Reverie et Caprice’ 
    Soloist Bernard Brook

Mahler Symphony No. 5

After Beethoven’s tensely dramatic overture and Berlioz’s elegant romance, we celebrate Mahler’s 150^th anniversary year with the vast musical canvas and emotional scope of his Fifth Symphony. Its moods include grim and funereal, savage and angry, ebullient and dancing, lyrical and romantic, and finally radiant and triumphant. Its famous adagietto has become particularly well known through its use in Visconti’s classic film ‘Death in Venice’.