Duet Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus: Wagner, Stravinsky and Mahler

The Duet Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (The Tragic), a work representing the full maturity of Mahler’s compositional abilities, full of drama, tenderness, and vast colourful orchestrations for a massive symphony orchestra.

The orchestra and the Duet Philharmonic Chorus also perform Stravinsky’s most religious work, The Symphony of Psalms, a work of extraordinary spiritualism connecting his relationship between Man and God.

Both works by Mahler and Stravinsky contain expansive and beautiful melodic lines, traditional harmonic language, and each composer’s personal stamp of form, structure and emotion.

The Duet Philharmonic Orchestra comprises the best-of-the-best music students from schools across the UK who perform every two years at Royal Festival Hall. The concert commences with a performance of Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, an exemplary tapestry of Wagner’s leitmotif technique revealing all of the themes from the vast opera distilled into simultaneous counterpoint.

Programme

Wagner Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

Interval

Mahler Symphony No.6

Performers

Duet Philharmonic Orchestra
Ronald Corp conductor
Duet Philharmonic Chorus