Mahler Symphony No. 6, Tewkesbury

The massed musicians of Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra and Stroud Symphony Orchestra join forces in Tewkesbury Abbey to take on Mahler's gargantuan and grippingly intense work.

'None of his works came as directly from his inmost heart as this', so said Mahler's wife Alma of her husband's Symphony No. 6, a score of such terrifying and ominous power that it came to spook even the composer himself.

Across the symphony's four movements we hear Mahler grappling with his own demise - clinging hopelessly to love, light and the beauty of life.

Location: Tewkesbury Abbey