Performance on 3 - Halle - Mahler, Prokofiev

Petroc Trelawny introduces the concert which opened the Halle's Thursday night Autumn Season. Sir Mark Elder continues his traversal of Mahler's music with the seldom heard Totenfeier: the heroic dialogue of life and death he later revised as the first movement of his 'Resurrection' Symphony. Then comes another echo: songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, or 'The Youth's Magic Horn', a fascinating collection of German folk poems which inspired Mahler not just in these songs but also in several symphonies. The singer is one of the world's most sought-after mezzo-sopranos, the Austrian Angelika Kirchschlager, who combines deep experience of this music with intuitive immediacy. Prokofiev's popular Fifth Symphony is his plushest and grandest, a work of affirmation and abounding melody composed in 1944, when victory in the war against Nazism was in sight. Mahler: Totenfeier Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) Halle Sir Mark Elder (conductor) Followed by... A focus on the Royal Northern College of Music, with specially recorded music and interviews. Wieniawski: Polonaise No.1 in D major, Op.4 Eva Thorarinsdottir (violin), Alison Rhind (piano) Recorded at RNCM on 12th March 2010 as an International Artist Diploma Recital as part of the Violin Weekend Lutoslawski: Grave (Metamorphosis for cello & piano) Philip Higham (cello) Simon Lane (piano) Walton: String Quartet in A minor (1st movement) Isolani Quartet Recorded at RNCM on 9th January 2010 as part of the Chamber Music Festival