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Mariss Jansons conducts Dvorak and Strauss

The late, great Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra mark the centenary of Dvořák’s death in a 2004 Prom also featuring a popular tone poem by Richard Strauss.

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The late, great Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra mark the centenary of Dvořák’s death in a 2004 Prom also featuring a popular tone poem by Richard Strauss. Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Mariss Jansons

(From ѿý Proms 2004, 30 July)

The late Latvian maestro Mariss Jansons appeared at the Proms in 2004 with his renowned German orchestra, of which he was Chief Conductor from 2003 until the end of his life. Together they present Richard Strauss’s autobiographical showpiece, Ein Heldenleben.

Opening the programme is Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony. Written at his brother-in-law’s estate around 30 miles outside of Prague, the symphony reflects Dvořák’s pastoral surroundings, and gives a flavour of the profusion of ideas to come in his ‘New World’ Ninth.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.8 in G major, Op.88

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
  • Richard Strauss

    Ein Heldenleben, Op 40

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.72 No.2

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier - suite (excerpt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
  • David Ho-Yi Chan

    We Will Meet Again

    Performer: John Bradbury.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Chaconne (Les Indes galantes)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
    • 17.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Son nata a lagrimar (I was born to weep), from Giulio Cesare in Egitto

    Singer: Charlotte Hellekant. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • George Gershwin

    Oh, Lady be Good

    Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Conductor: John Wilson. Ensemble: John Wilson Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • SONY.

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 Jul 2020 19:30

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