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Mahler

大象传媒 Proms 2011, Prom 56
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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Semyon Bychkov conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's celebrated Symphony No 6 in A minor (Tragic).

大象传媒 PROMS 2011

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

Mahler's epic Sixth Symphony, the Tragic, complete with fateful hammer blows: Semyon Bychkov
conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Plus an early piano concerto by Richard Strauss.

In Semyon Bychkov's second Prom this season, he conducts one of Mahler's most perfectly realised works, 'the only Sixth, despite the "Pastoral" ', in the words of Alban Berg. This is music of exceptional range and power, whose hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahler's own life and the wider world. The curtain-raiser is a mini-concerto with echoes of Brahms and Liszt, especially in its treatment of the piano.Kirill Gerstein, an exceptional artist with roots in jazz as well as the classics, makes his first Proms appearance in the main hall.

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Kirill Gerstein (piano)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 28th August at 2pm.

1 hour, 45 minutes

Last on

Fri 26 Aug 2011 20:15
大象传媒 Radio 3

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  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no. 6 in A minor

    Conductor: Semyon Bychkov Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra

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  • Fri 26 Aug 2011 20:15
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