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Afternoon Concert: Mahler's Vienna: Episode 1

Episode 1

Mahler's Vienna

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler's Vienna, Episode 1

Katie Derham presents music by Wagner, J Strauss II, Schoenberg and Mahler.

Katie Derham with music focusing on Vienna. Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde). J Strauss II: Emperor Waltz. Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht. Mahler: Symphony No 4.

Katie Derham presents a week focusing on music in Gustav Klimt and Gustav Mahler's Vienna, including works Mahler himself championed and music by his friends and contemporaries.
On a dark winter's morning in December 1907 a crowd of two hundred admirers gathered together at Vienna's railway station to say a fond farewell to the recently deposed director of the Court Opera. As Gustav Mahler set off for his fateful journey to New York, the notoriously taciturn Gustav Klimt quoted Goethe's Faust: 'Vorbei,' he uttered: 'It's over.' Mahler and Klimt, born two years, probably did not know one another well until about 1902 but in their respective fields, they seemed to epitomise fin de siecle Vienna. Klimt depicted Mahler as an armoured knight in his famous Beethoven Frieze and though they may not have been close friends, they were, nontheless, united by an almost crusading artistic zeal - not to mention their love for Alma, the charming, tentacular Muse of the Secession. Famously, Alma went on to love or marry Mahler, Kokoshka, Walter Gropius and many others, but she always maintained that: "It was to Gustav Klimt that I owed many tears, but also my awakening.' Was Alma's teenage kiss with Klimt the seminal moment of the Viennese Secession? 

Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor

2:20
Johann Strauss II (arr. Schoenberg):
Emperor Waltz, op. 437
Ensemble led by Renaud Capuçon 

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
James Judd, conductor

3.00pm
Mahler (arr. Stein for chamber ensemble): Symphony No. 4 
Christiane Karg, soprano
Ensemble led by Renaud Capuçon

4.00pm
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, op. 9
Lucerne Festival Orchestra Ensemble
Daniel Harding, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Mahler's Vienna

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Katie Derham with a series focusing on music in Gustav Klimt and Gustav Mahler's Vienna

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes focusing on music in Gustav Klimt and Gustav Mahler's Vienna, including works Mahler himself championed and music by his friends and contemporaries

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