Proms on Four: Orchestras of the World - Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Show: BBC Proms --> Season: 67 - 2013
AirDate: 7/18/2013
Runtime: 85
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Overview: From the Royal Albert Hall, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott perform Mahler's Fifth Symphony, opening a Thursday night season featuring Orchestras of the World at the BBC Proms. Katie Derham introduces this popular work by Mahler with its intensely lyrical fourth movement, the Adagietto, written as a love letter to the composer's young wife Alma and later made famous when featured in the film Death in Venice.