Prom 45: Jamie Barton sings Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder

Prom 45: Jamie Barton sings Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder

Royal Albert Hall

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska perform a remarkable work by Julius Eastman alongside Sibelius’s triumphant Fifth Symphony and Gustav Mahler’s songs of love and loneliness, sung by the inimitable Jamie Barton

Programme

• Julius Eastman




• Symphony No. 2, ‘The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend’s Love for the Beloved’(15 mins)UK premiere




• Gustav Mahler




• Rückert-Lieder(22 mins)




• INTERVAL




• Jean Sibelius




• Symphony No. 5 in E flat major(30 mins)

Performers

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  Jamie Barton

  
  

  mezzo-soprano

  
  



• BBC Symphony Orchestra



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  Dalia Stasevska

  
  

  conductor

  
  

Composers

• Julius Eastman




• Gustav Mahler




• Jean Sibelius