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BBC Proms: 2016

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BBC Proms: 2016: Prom 39: Haydn, Charlotte Bray and Mahler

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Prom 39: Haydn, Charlotte Bray and Mahler

14/08/2016

2016

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2016, Prom 39: Haydn, Charlotte Bray and Mahler

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Haydn, Charlotte Bray and Mahler.

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Haydn: Symphony No 34 in D minor. Charlotte Bray: Falling in the Fire (with Guy Johnston: cello). Mahler: Symphony No 5.

Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo in Mahler's 5th Symphony, Haydn's Symphony No.34 and Charlotte Bray's Falling in the Fire, with cellist Guy Johnston.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Petroc Trelawny 

Haydn: Symphony No.34 in D minor
Charlotte Bray: Falling in the Fire (BBC commission: world premiere)

8.10 PROMS INTERVAL: What's in a Name?
No-one attributed more importance to naming the baby than Laurence Sterne's Walter Shandy but his attempts to ensure his son's future success came to naught and all because he couldn't get his trousers on. As the 2016 list of top baby names is revealed to a waiting world, Sophie Coulombeau explores literary archives to uncover the true story of What's In a Name? Just the fears, hopes and frustrations, ambitions and proclivities of British society over the centuries. 

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Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor 

Guy Johnston, cello 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Sakari Oramo (conductor) 

The latest in the series of Proms cello concertos is a powerful new work from Charlotte Bray, an expression of 'moral outrage' at the destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, last summer, after which 'everything changed' in the composer's compositional outlook. 

Similarly, something changed in Mahler when he came to write his Fifth Symphony. Not only had he survived a haemorrhage that had nearly killed him, but he had also met and fallen in love with Alma Schindler, for whom the Fifth Symphony's ardent Adagietto is a love song. Before that, Haydn's Symphony No. 34 makes its first appearance at the Proms.

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 122nd season of the BBC Proms

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