Performance on 3 - Vienna: City of Dreams (Berg, Mahler)

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra continue their Vienna: City of Dreams series with a performance of Mahler's monumental 6th Symphony, which the composer appropriately considered renaming the Tragic. It is paired with Berg's lament on the death of Manon Gropius, the 18-year-old daughter of Mahler's wife, Alma. Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) Berg: Violin Concerto Mahler: Symphony No 6 Plus part of a series of recordings celebrating the Bath International Music Festival. Tippett: Lento - Piano Sonata No 3 Paul Crossley (piano) DECCA 475 6750 CD1 T7