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Louise Fryer introduces the final acts of Handel's opera, Teseo, performed at the Gottingen International Handel Festival 2011.

Plus this week's focus on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra concludes with two twentieth-century German composers. Andrew Gourlay conducts Kurt Weill's Second Symphony - the music he was writing when he was forced to flee the country when Hitler took over in 1933. And the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO's Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher conducts a performance of Schoenberg's Erwartung, with the dramatic monologue role of a despairing lover searching for her beloved taken by soprano Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet.

Handel: Teseo, Acts 4-5
Teseo ..... Susanne Ryden (soprano)
Agilea ..... Amy Freston (soprano)
Medea ..... Dominique Labelle (soprano)
Clizia ..... Celine Ricci (soprano)
Egeo ..... Robin Blaze (altus)
Minerva ..... Johanna Ness (soprano)
Egeo ..... Drew Minter (counter-tenor)
New York Baroque Dance Company
Gottingen Festival Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).

Weill: Symphony no. 2
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

Schoenberg: Erwartung
Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet (soprano)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher (conductor).