Prom 64 (part 1): Nielsen, B Tommy Andersson and Mahler

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Thomas Søndergård, live at the BBC Proms, with Mahler's sublime 4th Symphony and a premiere from Composer-in-Association B Tommy Andersson.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Nielsen: Aladdin (excerpts)
B Tommy Andersson: Pan (BBC Commission: world premiere)

7.10 pm INTERVAL

7.30 pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major

David Goode (organ)
Klara Ek (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (Conductor)

Thomas Søndergård and the BBC NOW return for their fourth concert this season, opening with a suite from Nielsen's music for Oehlenschläger's play Aladdin. It's one of the composer's best-loved works, one that avoids musical clichés of the exotic Orient, conjuring scenes altogether more subtle and vivid. A major premiere by the orchestra's Composer-in-Association, B Tommy Andersson, puts organist David Goode in the spotlight and the concert concludes with the sunniest and most intimate of Mahler's symphonies - the concise Fourth, a work filled with birdsong and pastoral landscapes that features a child's-eye view of Heaven in its final movement.