Synopsis

From the Royal Albert Hall in London, Stephanie Hughes presents music from this year's Proms, with Bernard Haitink, music director of London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducting the European Union Youth Orchestra. The program features a single work: Mahler's demanding Symphony No. 7, a poetic exploration of nocturnal nature through shifting shades of darkness. Composed shortly after the turn of the last century and written for a vast orchestra, it is widely regarded as one of Ma