Proms at Sage Gateshead22 July
Missy Mazzoli, Mozart and Brahms
I’ve gone for the evening Prom at Sage Gateshead on Saturday 22 July, featuring the Royal Northern Sinfonia and its principal conductor Dinis Sousa. The programme is a very tasty one: it pairs possibly my favourite Brahms symphony (the sunny No. 2) with possibly my favourite performed live. This ten-minute symphonic poem is, in the composer’s own words, ‘music in the shape of a solar system, a collection of rococo loops that twist around each other within a larger orbit’. Hearing it is a mind-expanding experience – and, within the wonderful timber-clad acoustics at Gateshead’s Sage One, I’m sure it will be only more so.