From the BBC Proms 1998
Another chance to hear nine of the most memorable concerts of the 1998 BBC Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall , London.
8: Prom 60, given on 3 September, featured one of the great world orchestras playing Mahler's titanic fifth symphony and a major new work by Birtwistle commissioned for
Chicago. It is based on the idea of discontinuous time and takes the moment just before midnight as a point of departure into a new world. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Birtwistle Exody
Mahler Symphony No 5 Repeat