NSO: Ní Ríain, Mahler
Main Stage, National Concert Hall
National Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis - conductor
Karen Cargill - mezzo-soprano
Samuel Sakker - tenor
Two works which speak of a deep love of life and living and of the world in all its riches.
Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is a profound and exquisitely beautiful song cycle from a man facing his own end and recognising how precious this world is. Inspired by the lyrics of U2’s A Sort of Homecoming, CMC Composer Ailís Ní Ríain imagines ‘a world that is wearied by the actions and inactions of its human destructors’, and in particular, ‘the effects of climate change on birds’.
Programme
Ailís Ní Ríain - The Land Grows Weary of its Own [Irish Premiere]
NSO co-commission with BBC Radio 3 and Manchester International Festival.
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Tickets
€15, €25, €29, €34.50, €39. Booking at NCH.