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BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 56

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Prom 56

Part 2 Part 2: Mahler

2011

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Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 6 in A minor.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's celebrated Symphony No 6 in A minor (Tragic).

BBC PROMS 2011

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

Mahler's epic Sixth Symphony, the Tragic, complete with fateful hammer blows: Semyon Bychkov 
conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus an early piano concerto by Richard Strauss.

In Semyon Bychkov's second Prom this season, he conducts one of Mahler's most perfectly realised works, 'the only Sixth, despite the "Pastoral" ', in the words of Alban Berg. This is music of exceptional range and power, whose hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahler's own life and the wider world. The curtain-raiser is a mini-concerto with echoes of Brahms and Liszt, especially in its treatment of the piano.Kirill Gerstein, an exceptional artist with roots in jazz as well as the classics, makes his first Proms appearance in the main hall.

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Kirill Gerstein (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 28th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2011

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.

All broadcasts from the 117th season of the BBC Proms.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Strauss and Mahler

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