大象传媒

Presented by Penny Gore. Mahler and Nature. Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn) is a collection of German folk poetry made in the early nineteenth century, and was a key source of inspiration for Mahler throughout his life, touching on the poems' themes of Nature and Boyhood Wonder, recalling Mahler's own childhood in Bohemia and his own ideas of Nature set against the sophisicated industrial and intellectual background of Hapsburg Vienna. Today Anne Sophie von Otter, Hakan Hagegard and Thomas Hampson sing some of Mahler's settings of poems from Das Knaben Wunderhorn, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly. Interspersed with other "Nature" related pieces - Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony with it's musical thunderstorm, and Dvorak's 8th Symphony - his sunny evocation of the Bohemian countryside - both performed by the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

2.00pm
Weber: Overture to Der Freischutz
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Michal Dworzynski, conductor

2.10pm
Mahler: Selection from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Anne Sophie von Otter, mezzo soprano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor

2.30pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F (Op.68) "Pastoral"
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

3.30pm
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G (Op.88)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Garry Walker, conductor

4.25pm
Mahler: Selection from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Hakan Hagegard, baritone
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor.