Beethoven - String Quartet in F minor, Op.95 (arranged for string orchestra by Mahler)

Although today Mahler is best remembered as a composer, in his lifetime he was better known as a conductor, and it's in this context that he made versions of works by earlier composers - works that he could perform in his concerts. His arrangement of Beethoven's F minor quartet is unaffected by modern day notions of period performance - as tonight's conductor Vladimir Jurowski says, "it's as though we're listening to the world through the ears of Mahler".

Janine Jansen (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor