Performance on 3 - Mahler Symphony Cycle - Episode 3

Presented by Ian Skelly Continuing our cycle of all Mahler's Symphonies performed in Manchester and broadcast in sequence every Monday in Performance on 3. Tonight his longest symphony - the Third - which spans one and a half hours in six movements and is the composer's attempt to encompass the whole of Creation in symphonic form. With everything from children's songs to texts by Nietzsche the BBC Philharmonic is joined by soprano Karen Cargill and the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus and conducted by their Chief Guest Conductor Vassily Sinaisky. However it is the orchestra's recently appointed conductor/composer H.K. Gruber who opens the concert conducting a specially commissioned work by 84 year-old Viennese composer Friedrich Cerha "Like a Tragicomedy" written to complement this performance of Mahler's Symphony. Friedrich Cerha - "Like a Tragicomedy" (World Premiere - BBC Commission) * Mahler - Symphony no.3 Karen Cargill (soprano) City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus BBC Philharmonic H.K. Gruber (conductor) * Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Followed by the start of a focus on 'American Originals' all this week, starting with John Cage. John Cage: Sonata No. 2 for prepared piano ETCETERA KTC2001 Tr 2 Gerard Fremy, prepared piano