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BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 21

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 21: Part 1: Britten, Mahler

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Britten, Mahler

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Aldeburgh World Orchestra: Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. Mahler: Adagio (Symphony No 10).

The first part of a Prom in which Mark Elder directs the Aldeburgh World Orchestra, a newly-created ensemble. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. Mahler: Adagio (Symphony No 10).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Louise Fryer

Mark Elder directs the Aldeburgh World Orchestra, a brand new ensemble of young musicians brought together from every continent, in music by Britten, Mahler and Stravinsky, plus a newly commisioned work by Charlotte Bray.

Chosen by audition, and with a strict limit of twenty musicians from each continent, the orchestra will convene for three weeks in the Suffolk fishing town forever associated with Benjamin Britten.

The programme begins with Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, both a private memorial to his parents and a reaction to the developing menace of war. That's paired with two classic orchestral scores from the early twentieth century, which, though written just a few years apart inhabit completely different realms. The luxuriant Adagio from Mahler's Tenth symphony contrasts with the scandalous barbarities of Stravinsky's Rite but both have become musical icons. And before the Stravinsky comes a new work by one of the UK's most exciting new composing talents and one who already has an impressive list of international commissions to her name. 

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Mahler: Symphony No. 10 - Adagio

Aldeburgh World Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor).

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 21

Prom 21

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 118th season of the BBC Proms.

Mark Elder conducts the Aldeburgh World Orchestra in Britten, Mahler, Bray and Stravinsky.

Mark Elder conducts the newly-formed Aldeburgh World Orchestra in music by Britten, Mahler, Charlotte Bray and Stravinsky

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