Review: BBC PROMS: STRAUSS’S ‘FOUR LAST SONGS’, Royal Albert Hall
by Debbie Gilpin - Sep 12, 2026
“It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.” It wasn’t just Richard Strauss’s death-embracing 'Four Last Songs' which fit this theme in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s final Prom of the season, as Franz Schubert’s 8th symphony remained unfinished at his death - and Schubert’s setting of a morbid Goethe poem inspired Hans Werner Henze’s “Erlkönig”. The Benjamin Britten arrangement of the third movement of Gustav Mahler’s 3rd symphony (What the Wild Flowers Tell Me) does not immediately strike you as being consumed with mortality, but if you listen carefully you might find themes which go beyond the superficially pastoral. Quite a programme for this orchestra to go out on.
A TRAVES DE LA LUZ Will Come to Teatro Colon
by Stephi Wild - Sep 11, 2026
The Teatro Colón will present A través de la luz as part of the Filarmónica de Buenos Aires' 80th anniversary season. The performance will take place in the Sala Principal.
MusicaNova Orchestra to Present 2026-27 'Alt Classical' Season
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 26, 2026
MusicaNova Orchestra will present a season pairing lesser-known works by Mahler, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Haydn with pieces by less-familiar composers across three orchestra concerts and three chamber concerts in the Phoenix area.