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Frank Martin's chamber opera take on the "Tristan and Isolde" story - "Le Vin herbé" is, in every way, a far cry from Wagner, but still in a league of its own; a human oratorio, an intimate and emotional story of love and death.

Frank Martin himself called the piece a chamber opera that is more influenced by Bach than Wagner, even if the background story is the same, a ‘human oratorio’. In spite of the small ensemble and a focus on storytelling rather than dramatization, Martin’s setting of the medieval love story is just as strong and gripping. Here, Peter Dijkstra, who is himself a passionate fan of Frank Martin’s music, and the Swedish Radio Chorus perform "Le Vin herbé" in concert version, the immortal drama and the enchanting music.

2pm
Frank Martin - Le Le Vin herbé
Part I: Le Philtre

Part II : La Forêt du Morois

Part III : La Mort and Epilogue

Tristan…Marcel Reijans, tenor
Iseult…Johanna Winkel, soprano
Love Derwinger, piano
Members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Peter Dijkstra, conductor

3.45pm
Raminta Serksnyte – Songs of Sunset & Dawn
Lina Dambrauskaite, soprano
Justina Grinyte, mezzo-soprano
Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Nerijus Masevicius, bass
Swedish Radio Chorus
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Gledre Slekyte, conductor

Raminta Šerkšnytė’s Songs of Sunset and Dawn is a fusion of thriving neo-romantic sounds and playfully exploratory motifs and techniques. It’s a setting of the writings of the Indian and Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.

Presented by Tom McKinney