Gustav Mahler was born 150 years ago. Brilliantly translating the personal into the universal his work combines satire with irony, audacity with sincerity, precision with emotion. After a lecture on Mahler’s life, times, and music, and a light supper at INSCAPE Whitehall, we hear Mahler’s astounding Fifth Symphony at the Barbican which Herbert von Karajan described as ‘a transforming experience… you forget time has passed…’

MEET

4 pm INSCAPE Whitehall

ENDS

10 pm Barbican

COST

£85 members ­, £95 non-members: includes lecture, two-course light supper with wine, and best performance seats.