BBC Proms - 2009 - Prom 65: Ligeti, Mahler, Schoenberg, Strauss - Part 1

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Handley. Rising star conductor Jonathan Nott and one of the world's top youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, in Ligeti's haunting Atmospheres - a work made famous by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is followed by Mahler's poignant Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, and Schoenberg's ground-breaking Five Orchestral Pieces, premiered at the Proms in 1912 by Henry Wood. Matthias Goerne (baritone) Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Jonathan Nott (conductor) Ligeti: Atmospheres Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, Op 16.