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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: Mahler - The Final Years

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler - The Final Years: Part 1

Mahler

Part 1 BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler, Mahler - The Final Years, Part 1

Katie Derham presents music including Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

Including Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde). Elgar: Sea Pictures. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1. Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony.

Katie Derham looks at the last years of Mahler's life, the influence he had on some of his younger composing contemporaries, and the repertoire he conducted while in New York.

c. 14.00
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from 'Tristan und Isolde' 
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Andrey Boreyko (conductor)

Elgar: Sea Pictures 
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (alto)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)

c. 15.30
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony no.1, op.9 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor) 

c. 16.15
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony
Angela Denoke (soprano)
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra 
Peter Hirsch (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Mahler

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler - The Final Years

Mahler - The Final Years

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

Katie Derham on the last years of Mahler's life and the music he conducted in New York

Katie Derham explores the last years of Mahler's life, the influence he had on some of his younger composing contemporaries and the repertoire he conducted while in New York

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