Mahler
In the conclusion of a concert from Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Jac van Steen conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Seventh Symphony.
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Jac van Steen conducts the CBSO in Schoenberg's Five Pieces and Mahler's Seventh Symphony.
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Jac van Steen, conductor
Mahler called it a "song of the night", and indeed, the Seventh is a Mahler symphony like no other. It begins in a boat on an Alpine lake and ends with trumpets aloft in blazing, roof-raising celebration. Along the way there are distant bugles, moonlit serenades and spine-chilling horror. The concert opens with a revolutionary masterpiece by one of Mahler's most devoted admirers, which received its premiere a hundred years ago. With an oversize orchestra and a kaleidoscope of colours and textures, Schoenberg looks decisively towards a brave new musical world - and sheds fresh light on Mahler's own futuristic vision.
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Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet in a minor
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- Wed 14 Nov 2012 20:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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