Shostakovich and His Heroes
12/12. Presented by Petroc Trelawny from 3ridgewater Hall, Manchester.
,<atarina Karneus (mezzo), Jiirgen Muller
(tenor), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Shostakovich Symphony No 15 a ?n Twenty Minutes: The Song of the Earth
-he words of Mahler's masterpiece Das
.ied von der Erde come from poems by the great Tang dynasty Chinese poet and drinker Li Po. Jonathan Bate reveals the attractions of the poet for the composer.
8.40 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde