BBC Philharmonic: Richard Strauss, Mozart and Wagner

Recorded earlier this month at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Presented by Elizabeth Alker

Conductor Kerem Hasan and soprano Francesca Chiejina join the BBC Philharmonic for lush orchestrations of four favourite songs by Richard Strauss. The Symphonic Fantasy from his opera "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (The woman without a shadow) closes the programme. This is preceded by his Munich; film music written to a commission but banned in Nazi Germany and which he re-visited at the end of the War, when his beloved Munich had been reduced to rubble.

Music by Mozart and Wagner, composers revered by Richard Strauss, complete the programme; the Overture to Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman opens the concert and Mozart's Haffner Symphony sets the scene for the second half.

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Richard Strauss: Muttertändelei, Verführung, Ruhe, meine Seele!, Befreit

Mozart: Symphony No.35 (Haffner)
Richard Strauss: Munich - Waltz
Richard Strauss: Fantasy from "Die Frau ohne Schatten"

Francesca Chiejina (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Kerem Hasan (conductor)