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Prom 24: Ryan Bancroft conducts Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Clara-Jumi Kang and Mahler's Fourth Symphony with Miah Persson.

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Clara-Jumi Kang and Mahler's Fourth Symphony with Miah Persson.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64

7.45pm
Interval: Continuing our series of features looking at cultural life in 1922, John Gallagher gets a taste of what and how we were eating a hundred years ago. From health fads, to Virginia Woolf having a premonition of the microwave, John is joined by food historians Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson.

8.05pm
Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major

Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)
Miah Persson (soprano)
91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Mahler pictured his Fourth Symphony unfolding under skies that ‘shine eternally blue’ – and from the sleighbells with which it opens to its final, childlike vision of heaven, it is outwardly the happiest symphony he ever wrote. But he knew that life is more complicated than that, and in a Prom that begins with Caroline Shaw’s contemporary take on the music of the 18th century, and stars the ‘compelling’ Clara-Jumi Kang in Mendelssohn’s bittersweet Violin Concerto, there’s always something more, hidden just below the surface. Soprano Miah Persson makes Mahler’s vision shine, and the 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales shows the full scope of its blossoming relationship with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Caroline Shaw

    Entr'acte

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto In E Minor Op.64

    Performer: Clara-Jumi Kang. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4 In G Major

    Performer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2

    Ensemble: Aris Quartet.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ellens Gesang 1, D 837, 'Raste Krieger'

    Performer: Irwin Gage. Singer: Jessye Norman.
    • Jessye Norman, Schubert & Mahler, Irwin Gage.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Aug 2022 19:00

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