Prom 62 - Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Work:: Prom 62 (S5999)
Part of the BBC Proms.
Production:: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (T1670651996)
The last of this season's youth orchestras was founded a quarter of a century ago by Claudio Abbado as the first to recruit from both Eastern and Western Europe. It now returns under Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, to play Bruckner's last, unfinished symphony, Mahler's youthful song-cycle - with star baritone Christian Gerhaher as the lovelorn wayfaring lad - and the vivid symphony that Hindemith shaped from his opera about artistic heroism. Finish time: approx. 21:55
Listing:: L0310215257
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
The last of this season's youth orchestras was founded a quarter of a century ago by Claudio Abbado as the first to recruit from both Eastern and Western Europe. It now returns under Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, to play Bruckner's last, unfinished symphony, Mahler's youthful song-cycle - with star baritone Christian Gerhaher as the lovelorn wayfaring lad - and the vivid symphony that Hindemith shaped from his opera about artistic heroism. Finish time: approx. 21:55 Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3