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BBC Proms: 2015 Season: Prom 49

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 49: Part 2: Prom 49 (part 2): Mahler - Symphony No 6

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Prom 49 (part 2): Mahler - Symphony No 6

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Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 6 in A minor

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's Prom under Andris Nelsons concludes with a performance of Mahler's Symphony No 6 in A minor.

Håkan Hardenberger, The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons, live at the BBC Proms

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Brett Dean: Dramatis personae 

7.05 pm INTERVAL

7.25 pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)

Two contrasting heroes share the limelight in this evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean's trumpet concerto Dramatis personae, composed for tonight's Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. Mahler's Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed hero - one, he explained, 'on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled'. The conclusion may be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler's wife Alma.

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

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 49

Prom 49

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.

Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in music by Brett Dean and Mahler

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