The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
One of Europe’s leading youth orchestras performs Austro-German and Hungarian classics spanning 70 years from around the turn of the 20th century into the 1960s.
±«Óătv Proms: In this concert from the Proms archives, British conductor Jonathan Nott conducted the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in a programme framed by a pair of works famously used on the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey – Ligeti’s nebulous Atmosphères and Strauss’s visionary Also sprach Zarathustra. Leading German baritone Matthias Goerner sings Mahler’s harrowing set of meditations on infant mortality. Premiered at the 1912 Proms by Henry Wood, Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces contain the composer’s first painterly experiments in shaping melodies based on instrumental colours, as opposed to pitches.
Presented by Tom Service.
Ligeti: Atmosphères
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Jonathan Nott (conductor)
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(From the ±«Óătv Proms 2009, 4 September)
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Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
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