Episodes
| Series | Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| AO3 | 01 | 20120702 | Katie Derham presents a week focusing on music in Gustav Klimt and Gustav Mahler's Vienna, including works Mahler himself championed and music by his friends and contemporaries. On a dark winter's morning in December 1907 a crowd of two hundred admirers gathered together at Vienna's railway station to say a fond farewell to the recently deposed director of the Court Opera. As Gustav Mahler set off for his fateful journey to New York, the notoriously taciturn Gustav Klimt quoted Goethe's Faust: 'Vorbei,' he uttered: 'It's over.' Mahler and Klimt, born two years, probably did not know one another well until about 1902 but in their respective fields, they seemed to epitomise fin de siecle Vienna. Klimt depicted Mahler as an armoured knight in his famous Beethoven Frieze and though they may not have been close friends, they were, nontheless, united by an almost crusading artistic zeal - not to mention their love for Alma, the charming, tentacular Muse of the Secession. Famously, Alma went on to love or marry Mahler, Kokoshka, Walter Gropius and many others, but she always maintained that: "It was to Gustav Klimt that I owed many tears, but also my awakening.' Was Alma's teenage kiss with Klimt the seminal moment of the Viennese Secession? Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, conductor 2:20 Johann Strauss II (arr. Schoenberg): Emperor Waltz, op. 437 Ensemble led by Renaud Capuçon Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra James Judd, conductor 3.00pm Mahler (arr. Stein for chamber ensemble): Symphony No. 4 Christiane Karg, soprano 4.00pm Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, op. 9 Lucerne Festival Orchestra Ensemble Daniel Harding, conductor. |
| AO3 | 01 | 20120702 | Katie Derham presents a week focusing on music in Gustav Klimt and Gustav Mahler's Vienna, including works Mahler himself championed and music by his friends and contemporaries. On a dark winter's morning in December 1907 a crowd of two hundred admirers gathered together at Vienna's railway station to say a fond farewell to the recently deposed director of the Court Opera. As Gustav Mahler set off for his fateful journey to New York, the notoriously taciturn Gustav Klimt quoted Goethe's Faust: 'Vorbei,' he uttered: 'It's over.' Mahler and Klimt, born two years, probably did not know one another well until about 1902 but in their respective fields, they seemed to epitomise fin de siecle Vienna. Klimt depicted Mahler as an armoured knight in his famous Beethoven Frieze and though they may not have been close friends, they were, nontheless, united by an almost crusading artistic zeal - not to mention their love for Alma, the charming, tentacular Muse of the Secession. Famously, Alma went on to love or marry Mahler, Kokoshka, Walter Gropius and many others, but she always maintained that: "It was to Gustav Klimt that I owed many tears, but also my awakening.' Was Alma's teenage kiss with Klimt the seminal moment of the Viennese Secession? Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, conductor 2:20 Johann Strauss II (arr. Schoenberg): Emperor Waltz, op. 437 Ensemble led by Renaud Capuçon Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra James Judd, conductor 3.00pm Mahler (arr. Stein for chamber ensemble): Symphony No. 4 Christiane Karg, soprano 4.00pm Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, op. 9 Lucerne Festival Orchestra Ensemble Daniel Harding, conductor. |
| AO3 | 02 | 20120703 | Katie Derham continues her exploration of Mahler's Vienna with music Mahler conducted and music by his contemporaries Zemlinsky The Mermaid Dresden Staatskapelle Juraj Valcuha, conductor 2.45 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 ('Eroica') Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor. |
| AO3 | 02 | 20120703 | Katie Derham continues her exploration of Mahler's Vienna with music Mahler conducted and music by his contemporaries Zemlinsky The Mermaid Dresden Staatskapelle Juraj Valcuha, conductor 2.45 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 ('Eroica') Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor. |
| AO3 | 03 | 20120704 | Katie Derham continues her exploration of Klimt's Vienna with a performance of Mahler's last completed symphony, played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle. Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Simon Rattle, conductor. |
| AO3 | 03 | 20120704 | Katie Derham continues her exploration of Klimt's Vienna with a performance of Mahler's last completed symphony, played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle. Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Simon Rattle, conductor. |
| AO3 | 04 LAST | 20120706 | Katie Derham ends her week in Mahler's Vienna with more music Mahler conducted and music by composers he influenced. Berg: Violin Concerto Isabelle Faust, violin Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Claudio Abbado, conductor 2.30 Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4 Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, op. 61 3.35 Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, op. 18 Christine Schäfer, soprano James Johnson, bass-baritone San Francisco Symphony Christoph Eschenbach, conductor. |
| AO3 | 04 LAST | 20120706 | Katie Derham ends her week in Mahler's Vienna with more music Mahler conducted and music by composers he influenced. Berg: Violin Concerto Isabelle Faust, violin Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Claudio Abbado, conductor 2.30 Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4 Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, op. 61 3.35 Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, op. 18 Christine Schäfer, soprano James Johnson, bass-baritone San Francisco Symphony Christoph Eschenbach, conductor. |