This programme presents the lives and works of Tchaikovsky, Puccini and Mahler, as featured in the BBC series Great Composers. It examines the backgrounds, influences and relationsships that make these composers part of the very fabric of the history of western music. Each composer's life and work is presented through extensive performance sequences, and through interviews and comment from some of today's greatest artists and most respected authorities.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh
Contributors include
Evgeny Kissin, Maxim Vengerov, Natalia Makarova, Yuri Temirkanov, Graham Vick, Valery Gergiev, Raymond Gubbay, Jonathan Miller, Julia Migenes, Jose Cura, Simon Callow, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Georg Solti, Ken Russell, Thomas Hampson, Michael Tilson Thomas, Riccardo Chailly
Tchaikovsky
Music performed by the St Petersburgh Philharmonic Orchestra comd. Yuri Temirkanov
Puccini
Music performed by Jose Cura, The BBC Philharmonic cond. Richard Buckley
Mahler
Music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Georg Solti |
[ PAL ]