Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

In the first of two Proms under the baton of its new music director, the Dutch orchestra performs Mahler's massive Sixth Symphony. The fateful hammer blows of the work's finale seem to prophesy the tragedies that the composer himself was soon to face: of his daughter's death and the diagnosis of his own fatal heart condition. Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons

Mahler Symphony No 6