Performance on 3 - Mahler Symphony Cycle - Episode 5

Presented by Ian Skelly The Halle continues this Manchester-based series highlighting Mahler's creative path through his symphonies, with Sir Mark Elder conducting Mahler's highly personal Fifth Symphony. Its musical canvas and emotional scope are huge, moving from despair to hope, darkness to light. Opening with a solo trumpet the tragic first movement gives way to a more positive mood and echoes of the Viennese waltz, reaching the blazing finale by way of the famous Adagietto. Each Mahler symphony in this series is preceeded by a new work . Here it is the turn of the American musical polymath Uri Caine, who has long taken inspiration from Mahler in his jazz-influenced reworkings of classical repertoire. This piece features the Hallé Youth Choir as well as orchestral forces. Uri Caine: Scenes from childhood Mahler: Symphony no.5 Uri Caine (piano) Halle Halle Youth Choir Ad Solem Chamber Choir conductor Sir Mark Elder Followed by a futher exploration of the music of Uri Caine, in his adaptions and reworkings of Mahler and more. Mahler/Caine: Kindertotenlieder and Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Uri Caine (piano) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Chris Speed (clarinet) Joyce Hammann (violin) Tim Lefebvre (double bass) Zach Danziger (drums) Bach/Uri Caine: Goldberg Variations: Variation 13 Uri Caine (piano)