| Orchestra or Band | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum', Messiaen
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.6 in A Minor', Mahler |
| Performance Notes | Under its current chief, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra has been recovering its lost Mahler tradition.
Their second collaboration this year includes one of Mahlers most perfectly realised works, the only Sixth, despite the Pastoral in the words of Alban Berg.This is music of exceptional range and power, whose fateful hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahlers own life and the wider world.
Our curtainraiser is an imposing and vibrant memorial to the dead of two world wars, a compositional trailblazer in its own right.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/127),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24) |