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Afternoon Concert

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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 - Conductor and Arranger

Afternoon Concert: Mahler - Conductor and Arranger: Episode 1

Mahler - Conductor and Arranger

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler - Conductor and Arranger, Episode 1

Including the work Mahler conducted most often - Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger.

With the work Mahler conducted most often - Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger - and Mahler's own Symphony No 7. Plus Rachmaninov: Piano Concero No 3. Beethoven: Symphony No 7.

In his lifetime Mahler was more famous as a conductor than as a composer and today's programme, presented by Louise Fryer, begins with the work he conducted the most often. While he was working in New York he conducted the second performance of Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto - with the composer as soloist. The programme ends with Mahler's own 7th Symphony, which he conducted five times. 


Wagner: Prelude - Die Meistersinger
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Gunther Herbig, conductor

Beethoven: Symphony No.7
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christoph König, conductor

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3
Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

Mahler: Symphony No.7
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Mahler - Conductor and Arranger

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Louise Fryer presents a series focusing on Mahler's work as a conductor and arranger

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes focusing on Mahler's work as a conductor and arranger. In his lifetime he was more famous as a conductor than a composer

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