BBC Proms 2020 Season - Mahler's Sixth Symphony [2015]



In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Tonight's prom finds two contrasting heroes sharing the limelight in an evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its then new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae, composed for tonight’s soloist, Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. Mahler’s Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed hero – one, he explained, ‘on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled’. The conclusion may be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler’s wife, Alma.



01. Brett Dean - Dramatis personae

01a. Introduction to the Nelsons prom

02. Mahler - Symphony No. 6 in A minor

02a. Interview with Andris Nelsons and Håkan Hardenberger



Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons (conductor)



Presented by Hannah French

320 kbps .mp3



First broadcast:  BBC Proms 2015, 22 August



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