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Gustav Mahler: Nachtmusik I

Sara Mohr-Pietsch navigates a musical pathway to Gustav Mahler's Nachtmusik, the second movement from his Seventh Symphony.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch navigates a musical pathway to Gustav Mahler's Nachtmusik, the second movement from his Seventh Symphony. There's more night music, including a little of it from Mozart, as well as from Lili Boulanger. Mahler's piece features horn calls, which find an echo in music by Benjamin Britten, and there are cow bells, beloved also by Henry Mancini. And there's a song by Mahler's wife, Alma, before she was compelled to give up composing on Mahler's insistence.

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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Today 13:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525: IV. Rondo. Allegro

    • Mozart: String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    • Compositrices à l'aube du XXe siècle.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Water Night

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 14.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto, RV.501 'La notte'

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.

  • Franz Schubert

    Marche militaire in D major, D.733 no.1

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Schubert: Marches Militaires: Daniel Barenboim/Radu Lupu.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.

  • Luciano Berio

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Revelge (for a drummerboy) - arranged by Franui

    Performer: Daniel Schmutzhard. Ensemble: Franui.
    • Col Legno.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Poule (Concert en sextuor no.6 in G minor)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
    • 11.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Prelude (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

    More Palatino

    • Sweelinck: Works for Harpsichord.
    • Intermusic S.A..
    • 5.

  • Anna Clyne

    Seascape (Abstractions)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: Abstractions.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Bei dir ist es traut

    Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Singer: Francesca Chiejina. Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Thomas Adès

    3 Studies from Couperin: No. 2. Les Tours de passe-passe

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • BIS.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Elegy (Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings)

    Performer: Radek Baborák. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Henry Mancini

    Cow Bells And Coffee Beans

    • INTEGRAL HENRY MANCINI 1956-1962.
    • Diggers Factory.
    • 21.

Broadcast

  • Today 13:30
    BBC Radio 3