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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

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Thu 16 Nov 202319:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Symphonic Fantasy From 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten'

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Élisabeth Pion

    Desdémona

  • Élisabeth Pion

    Ophélie

  • Élisabeth Pion

    Viviane

  • Élisabeth Pion

    Phoebé

  • Élisabeth Pion

    Salomé

  • Élisabeth Pion

    Omphale

  • 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.

  • Gerald Finzi

    To Lizbie Browne (Earth and Air and Rain Op.15)

    Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Performer: Clifford Benson.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Nov 202319:30
    BBC Radio 3