麻豆约拍

Live at 麻豆约拍 Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen with Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Franz-Josef Selig in Webern, Mahler and Wagner.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 10 - Adagio

8.00pm Interval: Proms Plus
Stephen Fry and John Deathridge introduce Wagner's 'Die Walk眉re'. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

8.20pm
Wagner: Die Walk眉re - Act 1

Anja Kampe (soprano), Sieglinde
Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Siegmund
Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Hunding
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

The Philharmonia Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen take a musical journey from aphorism to epic. Barely six minutes long, Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra distils expression down to its most concentrated form, every musical gesture carrying infinite weight and colour. By contrast, Wagner's Die Walk眉re, the second instalment of his monumental Ring cycle, explores musical expansion and amplitude, offering an all-consuming vision of illicit love. At the midpoint is the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony - music that grasps towards eternity and immortality but that was to remain tragically unfinished at the composer's death.