BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 35 - Mahler’s Seventh Symphony (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC 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.

01. Alban Berg - Violin Concerto
01a. Introduction to Berg’s Violin Concerto
01b. Outro to Berg’s Violin Concerto
02. Bach, J. S. - Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 - Largo (encore)
02a. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 35 - Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, interval commentary
Martin Handley is joined by Dr Robert Samuels, Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University, to talk about Mahler's 7th Symphony.
Music played in interval:
Mahler - Rückert Lieder: No. 2. Liebst du um Schönheit
Performer: Brian Zeger. Singer: Jamie Barton. ALL WHO WANDER. DELOS. 102.
03. Mahler - Symphony No. 7 in E minor
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)


An emotionally charged programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Berg’s 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 —that is, night music of emotion recollected in anxiety instead of tranquillity—then 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’s Violin Concerto will still be performed as advertised.*

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

First broadcast:  10 August 2023
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