Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Part 1 | 20090904 | From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Handley. Rising star conductor Jonathan Nott and one of the world's top youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, in Ligeti's haunting Atmospheres - a work made famous by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is followed by Mahler's poignant Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, and Schoenberg's ground-breaking Five Orchestral Pieces, premiered at the Proms in 1912 by Henry Wood. Matthias Goerne (baritone) Jonathan Nott (conductor) Ligeti: Atmospheres Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, Op 16. The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester perform music by Ligeti, Mahler and Schoenberg. |
| 02 | Part 2 | 20090904 | From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Handley. Jonathan Nott conducts one of the world's top youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, in Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, a work inspired by the philosophical writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, and famously, used by Stanley Kubrick to accompany images of space in his film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Matthias Goerne (baritone) Jonathan Nott (conductor) Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra. The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Jonathan Nott in Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra. |