Original version

BBC Four

BBC 4

BBC Proms

Music: Classical

BBC Radio 3

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.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

2012

BBC Proms: 2012 Season

Samira Ahmed

David Stevens

Serena Cross

BBC Proms: 2012: Wagner and Strauss

Performances & Events

Wagner and Strauss

30/08/2012

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2012, Wagner and Strauss

The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra plays works by Wagner, Berg, Richard Strauss and Ravel.

The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra performs a prelude from Wagner's Parsifal, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, the Rosenkavalier Suite by Richard Strauss and Ravel's La valse.

One of the great youth orchestras returns to the Proms, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra conducted by Daniele Gatti. The concert opens with a prelude from Wagner's Parsifal and is followed by a trailblazing concerto from 20th-century Vienna, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto with soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann. Vienna is the setting for a bittersweet tale of young love and middle aged melancholy in the Rosenkavalier Suite by Richard Strauss and the concert concludes with French composer Maurice Ravel's take on the Viennese waltz in his explosive La valse. Introduced by Samira Ahmed.

BBC Proms: 2012

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

All broadcasts from the 118th season of the BBC Proms.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

BBC Proms

2012

Wagner and Strauss

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Four

About BBC Four