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Music: Classical

2024

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.

BBC Proms: 2015 Season: Prom 24

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 24: Part 1: Prom 24 (part 1): James MacMillan and Mahler

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Prom 24 (part 1): James MacMillan and Mahler

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles in James MacMillan's Symphony No 4.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under chief conductor Donald Runnicles gives the world premiere performance of James MacMillan's Symphony No 4.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles live at the BBC Proms in music by James MacMillan and Mahler

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley 

James MacMillan: Symphony No. 4 (BBC commission) (world premiere)

8.10 pm
INTERVAL

8.30 pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor

Mahler's mighty Symphony No. 5 is the climax of this second Prom from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor Donald Runnicles. The work's intense, contrasting moods - the bitter solemnity of the funeral march, the violence of the second movement and the tenderness of the famous Adagietto - make this one of the great orchestral showpieces. The evening opens with the world premiere of a dramatic and bell-haunted Fourth Symphony from Scottish composer James MacMillan, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and dedicated to this evening's conductor.

[This Prom will be repeated on Monday 10th August at 2pm].

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 24

Prom 24

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 121st season of the BBC Proms.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles in James MacMillan and Mahler

Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by James MacMillan and Mahler

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