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Leonard Bernstein conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony

Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Proms 2020

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in works by Mozart and Mahler – both of whom enjoyed close connections with the Austrian capital.

In 2020, Â鶹ÊÓƵAV 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.

Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Proms: Bernstein appeared only twice at the Proms. In tonight’s selection from the Proms archive, we hear the first of those appearances, from 1987. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, with its sublime slow movement, is the composer at his sunniest and most mellow, despite the fact that he was to die two months after its completion. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a work especially associated with Bernstein, is by contrast the urgent work of a composer starting a new adventure, charged with new musical possibilities and a new love, expressed with impossible tenderness in its famous Adagietto.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622
Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

Peter Schmidl (clarinet)
Vienna Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

(From the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Proms 1987, 10 September)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Wed 26 Aug 2020 19:30
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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A K622

    Performer: Peter Schmidl. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no 5

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103

    Performer: Emanuel Hurwitz. Performer: Cecil Aronowitz. Performer: Terence Weil. Performer: Adrian Beers. Performer: Gervase de Peyer. Performer: Keith Puddy. Performer: Peter Graeme. Performer: Sarah Barrington. Performer: William Waterhouse. Performer: Edgar Williams. Performer: James Buck. Performer: Neill Sanders. Orchestra: Melos Ensemble.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
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  • Wed 26 Aug 2020 19:30
    Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 3

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