BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3
MAHLER Symphony No 4

Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Yefim Bronfman piano
London Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven played the solo part for the premiere of Piano Concerto No 3 almost entirely from memory, using only the few Egyptian hieroglyphs scribbled onto the score as clues for the music he had no time to transcribe. Mahler’s Symphony No 4 meditates on themes of life and death; one movement summoning ‘Friend Henry’, a fiddle-playing skeleton from German folklore, and another, the touching naïvety of a child’s vision of heaven where ‘the angels bake the bread’.


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