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Mahler Symphony No. 1 'Titan'

Kerem Hasan conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's First Symphony, and Alina Ibragimova and Jesper Svedberg play the Brahms Double Concerto for violin and cello.

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and young British conductor Kerem Hasan are joined by violinist Alina Ibragimova and Jesper Svedberg, the orchestra's principal cello, for Brahms's Double Concerto. With his customary irony Brahms described the music to Clara Schumann as 'an amusing idea', and a 'prank' but in fact the concerto is symphonic in scale and ambition and its three movements excitingly exploit the varied sonorities of the two solo instruments.

Mahler's First Symphony premiered in 1889, only two years after the Brahms Double Concerto. But using a massive orchestra to realise its expressive evocations of nature, earthy peasant dances, ironic quotation and dramatic, barnstorming finale, it sounds as if it's from a different musical planet.

Recorded last week at the Lighthouse, Poole, and Presented by Martin Handley.

Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor Op.102
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'

Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Jesper Svedberg (cello)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kerem Hasan (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Wed 13 Dec 2023 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Concerto In A Minor Op.102 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Jesper Svedberg. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kerem Hasan.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Water Drops

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Jesper Svedberg.

  • Franz Schubert

    Divertissement Sur Des Motifs Originaux Francais; 2nd Mvt - Andantino variations

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION : CDA-67665.
    • HYPERION.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 1 In D Major

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kerem Hasan.

  • Clara Schumann

    Three Partsongs (Evening Celebration in Venice; Forwards; Gondoliera)

    Ensemble: Studio Vocale Karlsruhe. Conductor: Werner Pfaff.
    • Schumann - Die Chorwerke Vol. 2.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
    • 21-23.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Euryanthe (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 33 No 6

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

Broadcast

  • Wed 13 Dec 2023 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3