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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

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Afternoon on 3: Mahler - Conductor and Arranger

Afternoon Concert: Mahler - Conductor and Arranger: Episode 4

Mahler - Conductor and Arranger

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler - Conductor and Arranger, Episode 4

Works Mahler both conducted and arranged - Schubert's Death and the Maiden and Bach Suite.

With two works that Mahler both conducted and arranged - Schubert's Death and the Maiden quartet and the Bach Suite. Plus Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Mahler's Symphony No 8.

During his lifetime Mahler was more famous as a conductor than as a composer. Louise Fryer presents the final programme celebrating Mahler the performer, and it includes two works that he both conducted and arranged. It begins with a Beethoven overture that Mahler conducted no less than 19 times and ends with his own giant 8th Symphony in a live recording from a hall Mahler knew well - the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.



Beethoven: Overture: Coriolan
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Joseph Swensen, conductor

Schubert arr. Mahler: String Quartet No.14 in D Minor (Death and the Maiden)
Camerata Academica Salzburg
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Bach arr Mahler: Bach Suite
Royal Concergebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Mahler: Symphony No.8
Alessandra Marc, Julia Faulkner, Cyndia Sieden, sopranos
Jard van Nes, Birgit Remmert, contraltos
Gary Lakes, tenor
Andreas Schmidt, baritone
Robert Holl, bass
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Kühn's Mixed Choir
Boys Choir from St. Bavo Cathedral
Breda Sacraments Choir
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, 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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