London Philharmonic Orchestra: Vladimir Jurowski conducts Mahler

Vladimir Jurowski opens the season with the continuation of his Mahler symphony cycle.

In 1905, as a follow-up to his intense, dark and voiceless Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Gustav Mahler completed the most enigmatic symphony he'd write: the Seventh.

The bleak emotional world of its predecessors was immediately noticeable in music that appeared to storm new territories in both its radical harmonies and its wild scoring.

But in the Symphony's celebrated 'night music' serenades – chilling, eerie and yet strangely calming nocturnes for orchestra, one founded on the sonority of a gently strumming guitar – Mahler appears to look elsewhere, to a realm far beyond his own.

This is one of Mahler's most inscrutable, fascinating and striking creations.

Please note there will be no interval during this performance.