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Prom 18: Britten and Mahler

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms. Edward Gardner conducts the 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde and, with Leif Ove Andsnes, Britten's Piano Concerto.

Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: the 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. Britten's Piano Concerto and Mahler's powerful orchestral song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13
(revised version, 1945)

08.05
INTERVAL - Proms Plus Talk: Hannah French and former Proms Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon discuss Henry Wood’s relationship with 20th-century music in the second of three events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Proms founder-conductor's birth.

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Claudia Mahnke (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton are the soloists in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde - a powerful, personal statement of loss, orchestrated with infinite variety and skill.

It’s paired with another mould-breaking work Britten’s Piano Concerto. Premiered at the Proms in 1938 with the 24-year-old composer as soloist, the work is as much a celebration of orchestral texture as pianistic bravura, bursting with youthful energy and invention. Norwegian pianist and Proms regular Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Piano Concerto

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra.
  • Federico Mompou

    El Carrer el guitarrista i el vell cavall from Suburbis

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde

    Performer: Claudia Mahnke. Performer: Stuart Skelton.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer: De l'aube a midi sur la mer

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Performer: Olga Paschenko. Music Arranger: Claude Debussy.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Étude-tableau No 6 in A minor, Op 39

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

Broadcast

  • Thu 1 Aug 2019 19:30

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