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BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 18

BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 18: Part 1: Dean, Mahler, Shostakovich - Part 1

Prom 18

Part 1 Part 1: Dean, Mahler, Shostakovich - Part 1

2010

Dean, Mahler, Shostakovich - Part 1

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Australian Youth Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder in works by Brett Dean and Mahler.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo), Australian Youth Orchestra under Mark Elder. Brett Dean: Amphitheatre. Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts).

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

Youth Orchestras have played an important part in the Proms for many years and the first of this year's visitors has travelled the furthest. The Australian Youth Orchestra brings with it music by its compatriot Brett Dean (who is also a former viola-player in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) and by Shostakovich. His powerful 10th Symphony includes coded references both to his own love for a young woman and also to the brutality of Josef Stalin, who had died in the year the symphony was composed. The orchestra and conductor Sir Mark Elder are also joined by the young Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova for some of Mahler's songs - settings of poems from the folk-based collection called Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn). 

Brett Dean: Amphitheatre (London premiere)

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn - selection

Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
The Australian Youth Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)


This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 4th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2010

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The Australian Youth Orchestra in a premiere from Brett Dean, plus Mahler and Shostakovich

In the first performance at the 2010 Proms by a youth ensemble, the Australian Youth Orchestra play the premiere of a work by Brett Dean, plus a selection of Mahler pieces and a Shostakovich symphony

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