BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 09 - Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth plus mezzo-soprano Alice Coote. Music by Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg.

01. Brahms - Symphony No. 3
01a. Introduction to Brahms’ Symphony No. 3
01b. BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 09 - interval
In conversation with Andrew McGregor, Gillian Moore explores how Arnold Schoenberg's roots in the Austro-German musical tradition fed directly into his later revolutionary compositional technique.
02. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
03. Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
03a. Introduction to Kindertotenlieder
Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Both Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert lost children. When Mahler came to set Rückert’s grief-stricken poems on the subject as his five Kindertotenlieder, he did so with music that appears emotionally stunned and radiantly consolatory. Leading international mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to these devastating songs, after Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg’s sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (‘Transfigured Night’), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony.

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