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Performance on 3: Mahler Symphony Cycle

Performance on 3: Mahler Symphony Cycle: Episode 3

Episode 3

Mahler Symphony Cycle

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Mahler Symphony Cycle, Episode 3

Presented by Ian Skelly. BBC Philharmonic, CBSC and Youth Chorus in Mahler: Symphony No 3.

Presented by Ian Skelly. CBSC and Youth Chorus and BBC Philharmonic conducted by HK Gruber in Friedrich Cerha's Like a Tragicomedy; Vassily Sinaisky conducts Mahler's Symphony No 3.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Continuing our cycle of all Mahler's Symphonies performed in Manchester and broadcast in sequence every Monday in Performance on 3. Tonight his longest symphony - the Third - which spans one and a half hours in six movements and is the composer's attempt to encompass the whole of Creation in symphonic form. With everything from children's songs to texts by Nietzsche the BBC Philharmonic is joined by soprano Karen Cargill and the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus and conducted by their Chief Guest Conductor Vassily Sinaisky. However it is the orchestra's recently appointed conductor/composer H.K. Gruber who opens the concert conducting a specially commissioned work by 84 year-old Viennese composer Friedrich Cerha "Like a Tragicomedy" written to complement this performance of Mahler's Symphony. 

Friedrich Cerha - "Like a Tragicomedy" (World Premiere - BBC Commission) *
Mahler - Symphony no.3

Karen Cargill (soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
H.K. Gruber (conductor) *
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Followed by the start of a focus on 'American Originals' all this week, starting with John Cage.

John Cage: Sonata No. 2 for prepared piano
ETCETERA KTC2001 Tr 2
Gerard Fremy, prepared piano

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Manchester's orchestras perform the entire series of Mahler's symphonies

Series featuring the entire series of Mahler's Symphonies performed by Manchester's orchestras at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, celebrating 150 years since Mahler's birth

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