大象传媒

Live at the 大象传媒 Proms: the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Mahler's Symphony No. 7, 'Song of the Night', and Berg's heartbreaking Violin Concerto with soloist Leila Josefowicz.

Presented by Martin Handley live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Alban Berg: Violin Concerto

c. 7.50
INTERVAL Martin Handley is joined by Dr Robert Samuels, Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University, to talk about Mahler's 7th Symphony.

c. 8.10
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor

Leila Josefowicz (violin)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

An emotionally charged programme from the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Berg鈥檚 Violin Concerto weaves quotations from Bach into music contrasting expressive Romanticism with cooler serial techniques. American-Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz is the soloist. Every Mahler symphony is an emotional journey: his Seventh in E minor sweeps from an overcast Alpine lake through love songs, nightmares and nocturnal marches to an ear-splitting finish along with jangling cowbells and laced with pitch-black humour. Mahler called the 2nd and 4th movements "Nachtmusik " - often translated as "night song". Yet, as Leonard Bernstein commented, there is something darker afoot: "The minute we understand that the word Nachtmusik does not mean nocturne in the usual lyrical sense, but rather nightmare 鈥攖hat is, night music of emotion recollected in anxiety instead of tranquillity鈥攖hen we have the key to all this mixture of rhetoric, camp, and shadows."

* Unfortunately, Sir Andrew Davis has had to withdraw from this Prom. We are very grateful to Sakari Oramo who will replace him at short notice. Mahler Symphony No. 10 will be replaced by Mahler Symphony No. 7. Berg鈥檚 Violin Concerto will still be performed as advertised.*

03:57 Alban Berg - Violin Concerto
35:00 Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 (3rd mvt)
39:19 Interval - Martin Handley is joined by Dr Robert Samuels
1:03:12 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 7 in E minor