Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

BBC Proms

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: 2018: Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern

Performances & Events

09/08/2018

Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern

2018

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern

Live at the BBC Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen in Webern, Mahler, Wagner

Live at the BBC Proms: the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen, with Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Franz-Josef Selig, perform works by Webern, Mahler and Wagner.

Live at BBC Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen with Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Franz-Josef Selig in Webern, Mahler and Wagner.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 10 - Adagio

8.00pm Interval: Proms Plus 
Stephen Fry and John Deathridge introduce Wagner's 'Die Walküre'. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

8.20pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1

Anja Kampe (soprano), Sieglinde
Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Siegmund
Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Hunding
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

The Philharmonia Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen take a musical journey from aphorism to epic. Barely six minutes long, Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra distils expression down to its most concentrated form, every musical gesture carrying infinite weight and colour. By contrast, Wagner's Die Walküre, the second instalment of his monumental Ring cycle, explores musical expansion and amplitude, offering an all-consuming vision of illicit love. At the midpoint is the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony - music that grasps towards eternity and immortality but that was to remain tragically unfinished at the composer's death.

BBC Proms: 2018

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 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

BBC Proms

2018

Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3