Bernstein Night BBC 4 10th December 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2023/12/10 This was couple of weeks ago, available on iPayer until mid-January. It's all worth watching (apart from the Levin interview) though some clips were repeated in several programmes; I began to feel quite sorry for José Carreras! But if you're into Mahler I particularly enjoyed Bernstein on Mahler https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tc60 This is Bernstein in full pedagogical mode, explaining how the folk tales of Des Knaben Wunderhorn became a song cycle, and was reworked into the syphonies. Also how Mahler's suppressed jewishness influenced his music. Not all talking - lots of music!
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