When Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela made their BBC Proms debut in 2007, they blew the roof off the Royal Albert Hall in London with a program of Latin music. They came back to the Proms this year, a little more mature (they no longer call themselves a youth orchestra). But the SBSO can still pack a punch. We'll hear their sold-out performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, from a concert three weeks ago in London.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Gustav Mahler: Excerpt from Symphony No. 1 (Titan)
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude from Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006
Nigel Kennedy, violin
The BBC Proms, London, England
Gustav Mahler: Two movements from Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)
Anna Larsson, mezzo-soprano, Miah Persson, soprano, the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First movement from Piano Sonata No. 16 in C, K. 545
Martha Argerich and Piotr Anderszewski, pianos
Johann Paul von Westhoff: Imitation of the Lute, from Violin Sonata No. 2
Daniel Hope, violin, Paul O'Dette, lute
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City
Benjamin Britten: Third movement from Cello Suite No. 1, Op. 72
Julian Lloyd Webber, cello
The BBC Proms, London, England
Alberto Ginastera: Milonga
Valerie Milot, harp
Ansermet Studio, Geneva, Switzerland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Shai Wosner, piano, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
Ennio Morricone: Theme from Cinema Paradiso
Chloe Hanslip, violin, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
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