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GREAT PERFORMANCES: MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 2, "RESURRECTION" (TV)
Summary
One in this series on the performing arts. In this program, recorded live at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, Leonard Bernstein conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection," in five movements. The vocal soloists in the fourth and fifth movements are soprano Sheila Armstrong and mezzo-soprano Janet Baker.
(The vocal portions of the fourth and fifth movements are in German, accompanied by English subtitles.)
Details
- NETWORK: PBS WNET New York, NY
- DATE: April 13, 1981 Monday
- RUNNING TIME: 1:31:55
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T89:0330
- GENRE: Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Orchestral music; Choral music; Conductors (music); Vocal music
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1974-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Fritz Buttenstedt … Executive Producer
- Jac Venza … Executive Producer
- Horant H. Hohlfeld … Producer
- Peter Weinberg … Series Producer
- Humphrey Burton … Director
- Martin Bookspan … Announcer
- Gustav Mahler … Composer
- Leonard Bernstein … Conductor
- London Symphony Orchestra … Symphony Orchestra
- Edinburgh Festival Chorus … Choir/Chorus
- Arthur Oldham … Chorus Master
- Sheila Armstrong … Singer, Soloist/Soprano
- Janet Baker … Singer, Soloist/Mezzo-Soprano