A series of four programmes on the impact of the east on European music featuring Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 3: The Jade Flute
In 1907 Gustav Mahler , haunted by the death of his elder daughter and by his own declining health, moved to the little town of Toblach in the Dolomites. There he began work on what was to become one of his supreme masterpieces, "The song of the earth'. This programme tells the story of its composition and traces its links with the culture of the east.
With Henry-Louis de La Grange Haiping Hu , Jessye Norman Pierre Boulez , Luciano Berio Hans Werner Henze , Basil Moss , Lyndon Brook and Sara Clee
Musical illustrations from the 1985 Promenade Concert performance featuring Jessye Norman and Jon Vickers Written and narrated by Donald Mitchell
Film editor RAOUL SOBEL
Executive producer DENNIS MARKS Associate director ANN HUMMEL Director BARRIE GAVIN