大象传媒

Radio 3 celebrates Franz Liszt's bicentenary with a special day of concerts from all over the European Broadcasting Union. The day starts with our own 大象传媒 Singers in a programme of Liszt's vocal music from Wigmore Hall in London. Then to Raiding where Liszt was born, for some of his symphonic poems, a form which he invented. Liszt's Hungarian background is represented through a performance of his mighty oratorio, Christus from Budapest. After retiring from the concert platform at the age of only 35, Liszt settled in Weimar, and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra concert from there includes his Faust Symphony. Liszt spent his final years in Bayreuth, and the day finishes with a live concert from the Grosses Festspielhaus featuring his Second Piano Concerto, performed by Konstantin Sherbakov.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

12.00 Wigmore Hall, London
Liszt: Pax vobiscum; Five Choruses; Salve Regina; Psalm 116 ('Laudate Dominum'); Das deutsche Vaterland II ('Was ist das deutsche Vaterland?'); Es war einmal ein K枚nig ('Flohlied'), from Goethe's Faust; Ungarisches K枚nigslied; Magyar kir谩ly-dal (Aldott l茅gyen Magyarok kir谩lya); Weimars Volkslied.

大象传媒 Singers,
David Hill (director),
Coady Green (piano).

1.00 Concert Hall, Raiding.
Liszt: Mazeppa, Symphonic Poem no.6, after Hugo; Hungaria, Symphonic Poem no.9; Hamlet, Symphonic Poem no.10, after Shakespeare.

Wiener Akademie,
Martin Haselb枚ck (conductor).

2.00 St Stephen's Basilica, Budapest.
Liszt: Christus, oratorio.

Gyula Orendt (baritone),
T眉nde Szab贸ki (soprano),
Erika G谩l (mezzo-soprano),
Istv谩n Horv谩th (tenor),
Mikl贸s Sebesty茅n (bass),
Hungarian National Philharmonic Chorus,
Hungarian Radio Children's Chorus,
Zolt谩n Kocsis (conductor).

5.00 Weimarhalle, Weimar.
Liszt: An die K眉nstler (Friedrich con Schiller); A Faust Symphony.

Dominik Wortig (tenor),
Men's Voices of the MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus,
MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Jun M盲rkl (conductor).

6.30 City Hall, Grosses Festspielhaus, Bayreuth (LIVE)
Wagner: Overture to 'Tannh盲user';
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S. 125; Totentanz, symphonic poem (Paraphrase on 'Dies irae').

Konstantin Sherbakov (piano),
Orchestra of the Weimar Liszt School of Music,
Christian Thielemann (conductor).

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