Afternoon on 3 - Mahler - Conductor and Arranger - Episode 4

During his lifetime Mahler was more famous as a conductor than as a composer. Louise Fryer presents the final programme celebrating Mahler the performer, and it includes two works that he both conducted and arranged. It begins with a Beethoven overture that Mahler conducted no less than 19 times and ends with his own giant 8th Symphony in a live recording from a hall Mahler knew well - the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Beethoven: Overture: Coriolan BBC National Orchestra of Wales Joseph Swensen, conductor Schubert arr. Mahler: String Quartet No.14 in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) Camerata Academica Salzburg Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Bach arr Mahler: Bach Suite Royal Concergebouw Orchestra Riccardo Chailly, conductor Mahler: Symphony No.8 Alessandra Marc, Julia Faulkner, Cyndia Sieden, sopranos Jard van Nes, Birgit Remmert, contraltos Gary Lakes, tenor Andreas Schmidt, baritone Robert Holl, bass Prague Philharmonic Choir Kühn's Mixed Choir Boys Choir from St. Bavo Cathedral Breda Sacraments Choir Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Riccardo Chailly, conductor.