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Last broadcast on Fri, 26 Aug 2011, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3.
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BBC PROMS 2011
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Mahler's epic Sixth Symphony, the Tragic, complete with fateful hammer blows: Semyon Bychkov
conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus an early piano concerto by Richard Strauss.
In Semyon Bychkov's second Prom this season, he conducts one of Mahler's 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 hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahler's own life and the wider world. The curtain-raiser is a mini-concerto with echoes of Brahms and Liszt, especially in its treatment of the piano.Kirill Gerstein, an exceptional artist with roots in jazz as well as the classics, makes his first Proms appearance in the main hall.
R. Strauss: Burleske
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 28th August at 2pm.
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Richard Strauss
— Burleske in D minor AV.85 for piano and orchestraConductor: Semyon Bychkov Performer: Kirill Gerstein - Piano Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Fri 26 Aug 201119:30
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