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BBC Proms: 2020: Mackerras and Brendel play Mozart

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Mackerras and Brendel play Mozart

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Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Alfred Brendel.

Classical and neoclassical favourites by Mozart, Schubert and Stravinsky with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. 

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and its then Conductor Laureate Charles Mackerras collaborated with Alfred Brendel on a series of performances and recordings of the piano concertos by Mozart, and they brought the grandest of them all to the Proms in 2001, along with an Italianate Symphony from the late 1770s. The classical strand continued with Schubert's rarely heard early Fourth Symphony, and Stravinsky's neoclassical string concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley

Mozart: Symphony No. 32, K318
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25, K50
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Schubert: Symphony No.4, ‘Tragic’

Alfred Brendel (piano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2001, 5 September)

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