BBC Proms: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein

8.00 BBC Proms: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein

A legendary concert from 1987 in which Bernstein conducts what many people consider the best performance of Mahler 5 ever.

Leonard Bernstein Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Programme:

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622;

MAHLER: Symphony No 5 in C# minor

Peter Schmidl (clarinet), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Recorded on 10 September 1987 in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC