Radio 3 in Concert

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

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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Experience the best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Radio 3 in Concert: Strauss and Mahler

Strauss and Mahler

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Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a concert from Glasgow.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alpesh Chauhan are joined by singers Karen Cargill and Brenden Gunnell to perform music by Mahler and Strauss.

Impassioned orchestral music and soul-searching voices from City Halls in Glasgow, the home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Thoughts of death haunt all of Mahler’s compositions but, inspired by a volume of ancient Chinese poetry, his symphonic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde sets a meditation of earthly beauty and existential angst amid some of the most imaginative and emotionally powerful music ever written.

And, before it, a piece written just a few years later as Europe cracked under the violent upheavals of the First World War. Richard Strauss’ twenty-minute distillation of his symbolist opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, which nevertheless bristles with exotic inventions and big-boned romanticism.

Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Tom McKinney

R. Strauss: Symphonic fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten
G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Brenden Gunnell (tenor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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