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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 - The Final Years

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler - The Final Years: Part 2

Mahler

Part 2 BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler, Mahler - The Final Years, Part 2

Katie Derham presents music including Mahler's Symphonic Prelude.

With Katie Derham. Mahler: Symphonic Prelude. Schreker: Vorspiel zu einem Drama. Elgar: Enigma Variations. Stanford: Symphony No 3 (Irish). Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande.

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
Mahler: Symphonic Prelude
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Baldur Bronnimann (conductor)

Elgar: Enigma Variations 
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)

c. 15.10
Stanford: Symphony no. 3 (Op.28) in F minor "Irish"
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)

Mahler: Rückert Lieder
- Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder 
- Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft 
- Um Mitternacht 
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 
- Liebst du um Schönheit 
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Wolfgang Rieger (piano)

c. 16.15
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande 
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert (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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