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Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern

Live at the 麻豆社 Proms: the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen, with Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Franz-Josef Selig, perform works by Webern, Mahler and Wagner.

Live at 麻豆社 Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen with Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Franz-Josef Selig in Webern, Mahler and Wagner.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 10 - Adagio

8.00pm Interval: Proms Plus
Stephen Fry and John Deathridge introduce Wagner's 'Die Walk眉re'. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

8.20pm
Wagner: Die Walk眉re - Act 1

Anja Kampe (soprano), Sieglinde
Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Siegmund
Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Hunding
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

The Philharmonia Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen take a musical journey from aphorism to epic. Barely six minutes long, Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra distils expression down to its most concentrated form, every musical gesture carrying infinite weight and colour. By contrast, Wagner's Die Walk眉re, the second instalment of his monumental Ring cycle, explores musical expansion and amplitude, offering an all-consuming vision of illicit love. At the midpoint is the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony - music that grasps towards eternity and immortality but that was to remain tragically unfinished at the composer's death.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Music Played

  • Anton Webern

    Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op 10

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 10 (Adagio)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Walkure (Act 1)

    Performer: Anja Kampe. Performer: Franz-Josef Selig.
  • Franz Schubert

    Allegro in A minor, D 947, 'Lebensst眉rme'

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Performer: Ricardo Castro.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 Aug 2018 19:30

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