The full transcripts of our Mahler interviews with Jonathan Nott and Kent Nagano are now available.

This year’s BBC Proms have a number of concerts of Mahler’s music. Matthias Goerne, Jonathan Nott, David Robertson, Dawn Upshaw, Bernard Haitink and Riccardo Chailly take their respective turns on stage at the Royal Albert Hall.

The works being performed are:

Kindertotenlieder – Prom 65
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – selection – PCM 13
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen – Prom 76
Symphony No.4 – Prom 59
Symphony No.6 – Prom 28
Symphony No.9 – Prom 5
Symphony No.10 (compl. Cooke) – Prom 69

All concerts are broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 (available online).

“With Mahler – you have to give yourself”

Do you remember when you heard the music of Mahler for the first time?

Nott: Yes. I came to Mahler through singing actually. I was eight, singing in England, in the Cathedral in Worcester, and it was Mahler’s 8th and I was in the Knabenchor. And I must have sung some of this piece three or four times in the time I was a boy. And then as far as I remember, the first part was great. I was eight years old, no problem, but the second part goes on and on … But we were still singing.

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