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Louise Fryer presents a concert with Nicholas Collon conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Strauss: Tod und Verklarung. Glass: Symphony No 6 (Lauren Flanigan: soprano).

Louise Fryer presents a BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert given just last week. Nicholas Collon, Principal Conductor of the Aurora Orchestra, conducts Richard Strauss's epic tone-poem of decay and rebirth, Death and Transfiguration.

Then he and the BBC SSO are joined by soprano Lauren Flanigan for the UK premiere of Philip Glass's Sixth Symphony, as part of Glass's 75th birthday celebrations. His Sixth Symphony, an impassioned setting of Allen Ginsberg's protest poem Plutonian Ode, an outcry against nuclear contamination and pollution. The symphony follows an arc from outrage and condemnation to spiritual and personal transformation.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 30 May 201214:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri

    Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Nicholas Collon

  • Richard Strauss

    Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)

    Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Nicholas Collon

  • Philip Glass

    Symphony No.6 'Plutonian Ode' (UK Premiere)

    Performer: Lauren Flanigan (soprano) Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Nicholas Collon

  • Johannes Brahms

    Wir wandelten, Op.96, No.2

    Performer: Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Donald Runnicles (piano)

Broadcast

  • Wed 30 May 201214:00
    BBC Radio 3