Symphony Series 8 – Completely Unfinished

Grand symphonies, bold new voices, and the electrifying sound of live orchestral music.

Some of the greatest music was never completed. Both Schubert and Mahler died before they finished their final symphonies and yet neither work sounds incomplete.

There is nothing short-changed about the two movements that Schubert must have realised were perfect as they stood. And Deryck Cooke’s performing version of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony allows us to hear this piece as the composer left it.

A fragile, autobiographical journey that charts a path through longing and grief towards a conclusion of uplifting acceptance, the truth of which can only come through love.

With thanks to the visionary patrons of ASO’s Chief Conductor: Lang Family Foundation, Nunn Dimos Foundation, Joan Lyons and Diana McLaurin.