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Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2024

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth plus mezzo-soprano Alice Coote. Music by Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg.

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth plus mezzo-soprano Alice Coote. Music by Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg.

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

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3

c.8.15pm
INTERVAL: In conversation with Andrew McGregor, Gillian Moore explores how Arnold Schoenberg's roots in the Austro-German musical tradition fed directly into his later revolutionary compositional technique.

c.8.25pm
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Both Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert lost children. When Mahler came to set Rückert’s grief-stricken poems on the subject as his five Kindertotenlieder, he did so with music that appears emotionally stunned and radiantly consolatory. Leading international mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to these devastating songs, after Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg’s sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (β€˜Transfigured Night’), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony.

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Thu 25 Jul 2024 19:30
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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No.3 in F major, Op.90

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Piano Concerto, Op. 42: I. Andante

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Schoenberg: Piano Concerto.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Verklarte Nacht Op.4

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Kindertotenlieder

    Performer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Sophia Corri Dussek

    Harp Sonata (second and third movements)

    Performer: Judy Loman.
    • Harp Showpieces.
    • Naxos.
    • 010.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major K.213

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Thu 25 Jul 2024 19:30
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