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Prom 65: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
- Date Friday 4 September 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.10pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
Following his appearance with the Bamberg SO (Prom 18), Jonathan Nott returns with the GMJO, with a pair of astronomically related works – Ligeti's nebular Atmosphères and Strauss's visionary Also sprach Zarathustra – famously used on the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (The astronomical theme continues in tonight's Late Night Prom.)
Leading German baritone Matthias Goerne sings Mahler's harrowing set of meditations on infant mortality. Composed exactly a century ago and premiered at the 1912 Proms by Henry Wood, Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces contain his first painterly experiments in shaping melodies from colours, not pitches.
- Ligeti Atmosphères (9 mins)
- Mahler Kindertotenlieder (27 mins)
- Schoenberg Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16 (19 mins)
- interval
- R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra (34 mins)
- Matthias Goerne baritone
- Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
- Jonathan Nott conductor
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Oh dear! I've always been very affected by the emotive pwoer of music and I needed a large box of tissues for the concert tonight. The Mahler songs were simply sung and totally heart breaking. They were followed by a very beautiful rendition of the Schoenberg 5 Orchestral Pieces. Really too beautiful, the first and forth movements needed more pure anger than was shown here. The slower pieces were much more successful. The Strauss was ok but not totally engaging until well over half way through. Again the problem seemed to be that the playing was too beautiful. This is a fine orchestra but it shouldn't be afraid to make a rougher sound.
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