Semyon Bychkov conducts Mahler's Seventh Symphony

The evening

“The symphony should be like the world” said Gustav Mahler “ – it should embrace everything”. And in his extraordinary Seventh Symphony, he’s as good as his word, taking us on a journey that begins on the waters of a mountain lake, and ends with trumpets shaking the heavens themselves.

Along the way there are distant bugles, cowbells jangling, moonlit serenades and spine-chilling terrors – there’s a reason, after all, why Mahler called the Seventh his “song of the night”. It’s a special favourite of Semyon Bychkov, holder of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Günter Wand Conducting Chair and one of the supreme Mahler conductors of our time. Expect him to relish every horn-call, every flash of humour and every glimpse of distant wonder.