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Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra open their nine-month exploration of the music and art of Vienna around the year 1900 - titled Vienna: City of Dreams - with a performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder. A romantic oratorio inspired by the music of Wagner and Mahler, Gurrelieder is scored for soloists, narrator, chorus and orchestra, and was completed in 1910 after ten years' work. It tells the story of the 12th-century King Waldemar of Denmark, who lives in the castle of Gurre on the Danish coast, and how his love for a young maiden called Tove leads to disaster.

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Waldemar ...... Stig Andersen
Klauss-Narr ...... Andreas Conrad
Tove ...... Soile Isokoski
Waldtaube ...... Monica Groop
Bauer ...... Ralf Lukas
Sprecher ...... Barbara Sukowa
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Followed by a focus on music written in Vienna around the year 1900:

J Strauss II, arr. Schoenberg: Kaiser Waltz
Michel Moragues (flute)
Paul Meyer (clarinet)
Louise Bessette (piano)
Arditti Quartet.
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