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BBC Proms: 2017

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Proms: 2017: Prom 36: Schubert and Mahler

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2017

12/08/2017

Prom 36: Schubert and Mahler

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2017, Prom 36: Schubert and Mahler

The BBC SSO and Thomas Dausgaard perform unfinished works by Schubert and Mahler.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard perform unfinished works by Schubert and Mahler.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, perform works by Schubert and Mahler.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Schubert: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished'

c. 8.00pm - INTERVAL: Proms Extra
David Owen Norris discusses unfinished works and composers who complete them.

c. 8.20pm
Mahler: Symphony No.10, compl. Deryck Cooke

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, offer two contrasting answers to the problem of performing unfinished symphonies. Although Schubert started work on his Eighth Symphony nearly six years before his death, he never completed it and the two existing movements of this lyrical, proto-Romantic work are mostly performed without a scherzo or finale. Mahler's final symphony grapples with darkness and doubt in music of rare anguish and intensity. It is presented tonight in the performing version by Deryck Cooke, which allows us to hear the work complete, in all its knotty, generous invention.

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Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2017 BBC Proms season.

Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 123rd season of the BBC Proms.

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