FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2010
5.45pm Proms Plus: Literary Festival – Writing inspired by Berlin
7.30pm Prom 65: Berliner Philharmoniker
Prom 65: Berliner Philharmoniker
Date Friday 3 September 2010
Time 7.30pm–c9.30pm
Venue Royal Albert Hall
Tickets £12–£54, price band C or Prom for £5
In the first of his two Proms with the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle couples Beethoven's punchy Fourth Symphony – a work packed with drama beneath its sunny surfaces – with Mahler's First, which recalls the youthful song-cycle heard in Prom 62 while tracing a characteristic Mahlerian scenario of hard-fought triumph over personal doubts and demons.
Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (34 mins)
interval
Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major (55 mins)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/whatson/0309.shtml#prom65
