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BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 57

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 57: Part 1: Wagner, Berg

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Wagner, Berg

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Daniele Gatti conducts the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in music by Wagner and Berg.

Daniele Gatti conducts the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. Wagner: Good Friday Music; Act 3 Prelude (Parsifal). Berg: Violin Concerto (soloist: Frank Peter Zimmermann).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

A programme of four works which in different ways reach out beyond the sound-world of late Romanticism. Wagner's ultra-chromatic opera Parsifal pushes the boundaries of traditional tonality, while Berg's heartfelt Violin Concerto leaves normal tonality altogether. Richard Strauss's Suite from Der Rosenkavalier injects the Viennese Waltz with luscious harmonies to conjure up a fantasy of the past, and Ravel's ominously prescient La Valse seems to predict the dissolution of European culture after the First World War.

The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester is one of the great youth orchestras of the world and they make a welcome return with the Italian conductor Daniele Gatti who brings this programme fresh from a tour of the summer festivals of Salzburg, Lucerne and Edinburgh. They are joined in the Berg Violin Concerto by the German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann who plays a Stradivarius once owned by the great Fritz Kreisler.

Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude (Act 3) and Good Friday Music
Berg: Violin Concerto

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Daniele Gatti (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 7th September at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 57

Prom 57

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.

Daniel Gatti leads the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in Wagner, Berg, Strauss and Ravel

Petroc Trelawny presents a Prom featuring late Romantic works that depart from their musical mode to varying degree. Daniel Gatti conducts the celebrated Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

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