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SUMMARY:Awakening & Farewell
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the first concert of our 2026/27 season\, which expl
 ores themes of nature\, human transition and mortality.  All these master
 works use soaring vocal and instrumental lines to reflect an acceptance of
  life's journey.  \n\nAnna Clyne - This Moment\nRichard Strauss - Four La
 st Songs\nSoprano:  Esther Shea\nGustav Mahler - Symphony No 1 in D major
  "The Titan"\n\nAnna Clyne – This Moment \nThis Moment is inspired by t
 he calligraphy of Vietnamese Buddhist monk\, Thich Nhat Hanh\, who passed 
 away in January 2022.  It is a meditation on his words “this moment is 
 full of wonders.”  This Moment is also a response to our collective gri
 ef and loss in recent years\, and borrows extracts of the Kyrie and Lacri
 mosa from Mozart’s Requiem. \n\nRichard Strauss – Four Last Songs \n
 These four songs are the last compositions Strauss finished.  The Four La
 st Songs depict the farewell of a man who leaves the scene of earthly stru
 ggle and triumph without disappointment or reproach\, without fear of dest
 ruction and doom\, but with serene confidence in eternity and immortality.
   When the poet asks “Can this be death?”\, the horn answers with tha
 t same Transfiguration Motif which Strauss wrote sixty years prior to his 
 own death. \n\nEsther Shea - Soprano\nPraised for her “smooth\, steady 
 tone” by Seen and Heard\, Esther Shea is a soprano from Jersey in the Ch
 annel Islands whose artistry is defined by a desire to tell stories that m
 ove and resonate with audiences.\nShe is currently studying for her Master
 ’s degree at the Royal Northern College of Music with Mary Plazas. \nEs
 ther won the RNCM Concerto Competition\, as well as the Joyce and Michael 
 Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss and the Williams Howard Award. \
 nEsther Shea appears by kind permission of the RNCM.\nGustav Mahler – Sy
 mphony No 1 in D major \nMahler based his first symphony around an elabor
 ate program encorporating ecstatic nature imagery and descriptions of the 
 grotesque and macabre.  The symphony’s finale at one time bore the desc
 riptive title Dall’Inferno al Paradiso\, and  the third movement funer
 al procession was heavily influenced by Hunter’s Funeral Procession\, in
  which the forest animals carry the body of the dead hunter\, portrayed in
  the minor-key version of Frère Jacques.   \nThe symphony opens with a
  magical\, sustained high A in the strings representing nature waking from
  a long winter. The main melody directly quotes Mahler’s own song "Ging 
 heut' Morgen übers Feld" from Songs of a Wayfarer.\nThe second movement i
 s a robust\, rustic Austrian Ländler\, featuring heavy stomping rhythms a
 nd a more easygoing\, waltz-like middle trio section.  \nThe third moveme
 nt's melody is humorously interrupted by a raucous\, wailing Klezmer-style
  brass band and the explosive\, turbulent finale struggles out of the shad
 ows of the previous movements\, ultimately crashing through to a blazing\,
  triumphant D major heroic conclusion. \n\nIt promises to be a spectacula
 r opening to the season!  Not to be  missed!\n\n \n\nFor full event det
 ails\, visit: https://www.nottinghamphilharmonic.co.uk/dbpage.php?pg=view&
 dbase=events&id=322117
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