Performance on 3 - Performance on 3: Smetana, Suk, Mahler, Dvorak - Thu, 8 January 2009 - Part 2

From the Barbican, London. The concert concludes with a work by Mahler, who grew up in a town now located in the Czech Republic, and was strongly influenced by the piquant flavour of local folk music as a youth, as is amply demonstrated in his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. This is followed by that most romantic and best-loved of all of Dvorak's symphonies, written in memory of the Czech land he had left behind. BBC Symphony Orchestra Dagmar Peckova (soprano) Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Dvorak: Symphony No 9 (From the New World).