About this programme

Katie Derham presents a week focusing on music in Gustav Klimt and Gustav Mahler's Vienna, including works Mahler himself championed and music by his friends and contemporaries. Born two years apart, Mahler and Klimt probably did not know one another well until about 1902, but in their respective fields of art and music they seemed to epitomise fin de siècle Vienna. Klimt depicted Mahler as an armoured knight in his famous Beethoven Frieze and though they may not have been close friends, they were united by an almost crusading artistic zeal - not to mention their love for Alma, the tentacular Muse of the Secession. Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde). New York Philharmonic, conductor Alan Gilbert. 2:20 J Strauss (son) arr Schoenberg: Emperor Waltz, Op 437. Ensemble, led by Renaud Capuçon. Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor James Judd. 3.00 Mahler arr Stein: Symphony No 4 for chamber ensemble. Christiane Karg (soprano), Ensemble, led by Renaud Capuçon. 4.00 Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1, Op 9. Lucerne Festival Orchestra Ensemble, conductor Daniel Harding.