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Episode 5

Mahler Symphony Cycle

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Mahler Symphony Cycle, Episode 5

Halle/Mark Elder in Uri Caine: Scenes from Childhood and Mahler: Symphony No 5.

Presented by Ian Skelly. Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra and Youth Choir, Ad Solem Chamber Choir in Caine: Scenes from Childhood. Plus the Halle in Mahler: Symphony No 5.

Presented by Ian Skelly

The Halle continues this Manchester-based series highlighting Mahler's creative path through his symphonies, with Sir Mark Elder conducting Mahler's highly personal Fifth Symphony. Its musical canvas and emotional scope are huge, moving from despair to hope, darkness to light. Opening with a solo trumpet the tragic first movement gives way to a more positive mood and echoes of the Viennese waltz, reaching the blazing finale by way of the famous Adagietto.

Each Mahler symphony in this series is preceeded by a new work . Here it is the turn of the American musical polymath Uri Caine, who has long taken inspiration from Mahler in his jazz-influenced reworkings of classical repertoire. This piece features the HallÃ© Youth Choir as well as orchestral forces.

Uri Caine: Scenes from childhood
Mahler: Symphony no.5

Uri Caine (piano)
Halle
Halle Youth Choir
Ad Solem Chamber Choir
conductor Sir Mark Elder

Followed by a futher exploration of the music of Uri Caine, in his adaptions and reworkings of Mahler and more.

Mahler/Caine: Kindertotenlieder 
and 
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Uri Caine (piano)
Ralph Alessi (trumpet)
Chris Speed (clarinet)
Joyce Hammann (violin)
Tim Lefebvre (double bass)
Zach Danziger (drums)

Bach/Uri Caine:  Goldberg Variations: Variation 13
Uri Caine (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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