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Programme which examines a different piece of music each week

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week, looking at the musical form or the composer's style, and exploring the many things contributing to the overall experience

Discovering Music: Mahler: Symphonies of Songs

Discovering Music: Mahler: Symphonies of Songs: Episode 1

Episode 1

Mahler: Symphonies of Songs

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Mahler: Symphonies of Songs, Episode 1

Stephen Johnson on Mahler's use of singers and echoes of his own songs in his symphonies.

Stephen Johnson explores Mahler's frequent incorporation of singers and elements from his own songs into his symphonies.

Gustav Mahler frequently incorporated singers into the line ups of his Symphonies, but he also used elements from his own songs in them. In the first of two programmes, in a year that sees the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, Stephen Johnson delves into the world of Mahler's Symphonies to explore these echoes.

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.

Stephen Johnson explores the echoes of songs in Gustav Mahler's symphonies

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Mahler's birth, Stephen Johnson explores the echoes of songs in the composer's symphonies

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