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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Mahler: Mahler and Nature

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Nature: Part 1

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Part 1 BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler, Mahler and Nature, Part 1

Music inspired by nature, including excerpts from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Penny Gore presents music on the theme of nature. Weber: Overture (Der Freischutz). Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts). Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony. Dvorak: Symphony No 8.

Presented by Penny Gore. Mahler and Nature. Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn) is a collection of German folk poetry made in the early nineteenth century, and was a key source of inspiration for Mahler throughout his life, touching on the poems' themes of Nature and Boyhood Wonder, recalling Mahler's own childhood in Bohemia and his own ideas of Nature set against the sophisicated industrial and intellectual background of Hapsburg Vienna. Today Anne Sophie von Otter, Hakan Hagegard and Thomas Hampson sing some of Mahler's settings of poems from Das Knaben Wunderhorn, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly. Interspersed with other "Nature" related pieces - Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony with it's musical thunderstorm, and Dvorak's 8th Symphony - his sunny evocation of the Bohemian countryside - both performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.


2.00pm
Weber: Overture to Der Freischutz
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michal Dworzynski, conductor 

2.10pm
Mahler: Selection from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Anne Sophie von Otter, mezzo soprano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor


2.30pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F (Op.68) "Pastoral"
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

3.30pm
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G (Op.88)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Garry Walker, conductor

4.25pm
Mahler: Selection from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Hakan Hagegard, baritone
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Mahler

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Nature

Mahler and Nature

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.

Series of performances celebrating various facets of Gustav Mahler's life and work

Series to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Mahler, with performances celebrating various facets of the composer's life and work

Penny Gore presents music by Mahler and others exploring the theme of nature

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