
Strauss and Mahler
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alpesh Chauhan are joined by singers Karen Cargill and Brenden Gunnell to perform music by Mahler and Strauss.
Impassioned orchestral music and soul-searching voices from City Halls in Glasgow, the home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Thoughts of death haunt all of Mahler’s compositions but, inspired by a volume of ancient Chinese poetry, his symphonic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde sets a meditation of earthly beauty and existential angst amid some of the most imaginative and emotionally powerful music ever written.
And, before it, a piece written just a few years later as Europe cracked under the violent upheavals of the First World War. Richard Strauss’ twenty-minute distillation of his symbolist opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, which nevertheless bristles with exotic inventions and big-boned romanticism.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Tom McKinney
R. Strauss: Symphonic fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten
G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Brenden Gunnell (tenor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Richard Strauss
Symphonic Fantasy From 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten'
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.![]()
Élisabeth Pion
Desdémona
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Élisabeth Pion
Ophélie
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Élisabeth Pion
Viviane
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Élisabeth Pion
Phoebé
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Élisabeth Pion
Salomé
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Élisabeth Pion
Omphale
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Gustav Mahler
Das Lied Von Der Erde
Performer: Karen Cargill. Performer: Brenden Patrick Gunnell. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.![]()
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture Suite in E flat major for recorder and strings, TWV55:Es2
Performer: Carin van Heerden. Orchestra: Orfeo Baroque Orchestra. Director: Carin van Heerden.- CPO.
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Gerald Finzi
To Lizbie Browne (Earth and Air and Rain Op.15)
Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Performer: Clifford Benson.- Hyperion.
Broadcast
- Thu 16 Nov 202319:30BBC Radio 3
