What's On / Proms by Day
5.15pm - 6.00pm: Proms Intro Andrew McGregor introduces tonight's musical recreation, with oboist Tom Owen, Marketing Manager Lilly Schwerdtfeger and composer Colin Matthews.
Prom 48: Gürzenich Orchestra
- Date Friday 22 August 2008
- Time 7.00pm - c10.20pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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When Mahler's Fifth Symphony was premiered in Cologne in October 1904, it shared a programme with Beethoven's Leonore No.3 Overture and a group of Schubert songs. And it does so again this evening, though with a modern twist.
The Schubert songs will be heard in contemporary orchestrations by four of today's leading composers, and nestling between the two 'original' halves, comes a performance of Stockhausen's Punkte, originally dating from almost exactly 50 years after the Mahler premiere (and also first heard in Cologne). It focuses on the opposition and resolution of six pairs of instruments.
- Mahler Symphony No.5 (74 mins)
- Interval
- Stockhausen Punkte (1952/1962/1993) (27 mins)
- Interval
- Schubert Ständchen, D921 orch. David Matthews (6 mins)
- Bei dir allein, D866/2 orch. Manfred Trojahn (2 mins)
- Nacht und Träume, D827 orch. Colin Matthews (4 mins)
- Das Lied im Grünen, D917 orch. Detlev Glanert (5 mins)
- Beethoven Overture 'Leonore' No.3 (13 mins)
Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano
Apollo Voices
Gürzenich Orchestra
Markus Stenz conductor
BBC Radio 3
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