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Performance on 3: Halle - Mahler, Prokofiev

Halle - Mahler, Prokofiev

05/10/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Halle - Mahler, Prokofiev

Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in works by Mahler and Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in Mahler's Totenfeier, songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (featuring mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager) and Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

Petroc Trelawny introduces the concert which opened the Halle's Thursday night Autumn Season. 

Sir Mark Elder continues his traversal of Mahler's music with the seldom heard Totenfeier: the heroic dialogue of life and death he later revised as the first movement of his 'Resurrection' Symphony. Then comes another echo: songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, or 'The Youth's Magic Horn', a fascinating collection of German folk poems which inspired Mahler not just in these songs but also in several symphonies. The singer is one of the world's most sought-after mezzo-sopranos, the Austrian Angelika Kirchschlager, who combines deep experience of this music with intuitive immediacy.

Prokofiev's popular Fifth Symphony is his plushest and grandest, a work of affirmation and abounding melody composed in 1944, when victory in the war against Nazism was in sight.


Mahler: Totenfeier
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Prokofiev: Symphony no 5

Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)
Halle
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

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