BBC Symphony Orchestra - Mental Health Awareness Week

In Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing music by Britten, Dan Jenkins, Joseph Marx, Thomas Larcher and Mahler, including works composed in early 20th century Vienna where the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, developed psychotherapy. A few years after composing his Seventh Symphony, Mahler even consulted Freud himself.

Dan Jenkins's piece 6845815 is a reflection on the time of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Dan, a composer, arranger and the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 2nd trombone, was deeply moved by the orchestra's visit to Hiroshima for a concert in 2018, and wrote this piece in response.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo

2.25pm
Dan Jenkins: 6845815
Brass and percussion of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins

2.35pm
Marx: 3 songs
Christine Brewer, soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek

2.50pm
Thomas Larcher: Chiasma
3pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo