A concert live from the Usher Hall in Edinburgh given by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop. The programme features the first performance of Rapture, a new percussion concerto commissioned by the RSNO from one of the talented new generation of American composers, Michael Torke. And after the interval Janice Watson is the soloist in Mahler's fourth symphony. Janice Watson (soprano) Colin Currie (percussion), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop
Michael Torke Rapture (first performance)
8.00 Twenty Minutes: Mahler and Klimt David Huckvale traces the interweaving relationships between Gustav Mahler, the artist Gustav Klimt, and Mahler's wife
Alma. Mahler was known to be the model for the Knight in Klimt's large-scale Beethoven Frieze in Vienna, and repaid the compliment by conducting Beethoven at its unveiling. But it was Alma who first caught the eye of Klimt, when she was in her late teens, and began a romantic involvement four years before she met and married Mahler.
8.20 Mahler Symphony No 4