Live at the BBC Proms. Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde and, with Leif Ove Andsnes, Britten's Piano Concerto.
Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. Britten's Piano Concerto and Mahler's powerful orchestral song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13
(revised version, 1945)
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Claudia Mahnke (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton are the soloists in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde - a powerful, personal statement of loss, orchestrated with infinite variety and skill.
It’s paired with another mould-breaking work Britten’s Piano Concerto. Premiered at the Proms in 1938 with the 24-year-old composer as soloist, the work is as much a celebration of orchestral texture as pianistic bravura, bursting with youthful energy and invention. Norwegian pianist and Proms regular Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist.
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Benjamin Britten
Piano Concerto
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Federico Mompou
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Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
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Claude Debussy
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Étude-tableau No 6 in A minor, Op 39
Performer: Alexander Melnikov.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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- Thu 1 Aug 2019 19:30BBC Radio 3
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