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Zemlinksy and Mendelssohn from the Baltic Sea Festival

The Swedish RSO perform works inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and Goethe at the Baltic Sea Festival, including Zemlinsky's The Mermaid and Mendelssohn's Walpurgis Night.

The Baltic Sea Festival. Penny Gore introduces more recordings from Stockholm summer music festival including today works inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and Goethe.
H C Andersen鈥檚 story The Little Mermaid is imaginatively interpreted by Alexander Zemlinsky in his colourful and atmospheric half hour long fantasy for orchestra. Premiered in 1905, the same year as The Mermaid, Debussy's 鈥淪ymphonic sketches鈥, as he called La Mer, is a sonorous abundance of sound gaining inspiration from Javanese music,
Presented by Penny Gore.

Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau 'The Little Mermaid,' fantasy after Andersen
Bloch: Schelomo: Rhapsodie h茅bra茂que, B. 39
Debussy: La Mer

Truls M酶rk (cello),
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klaus M盲kel盲 (conductor)

at approx 3.35pm

Arvo Part: Tabula rasa
Harry Traksmann and Robert Traksmann (violins)
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, T玫nu Kaljuste (conductor)

Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, op. 13
Swedish Radio Choir,Daniel Harding (conductor)

at approx 3.50pm
Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht 'Walpurgis Night'
Ingrid Tobiasson (contralto), Bernard Richter (tenor), Shenyang (baritone), Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish RSO, Daniel Harding (conductor)

Arvo Part: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, T玫nu Kaljuste

3 hours

Last on

Tue 11 Feb 2020 14:00

Music Played

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid) - Fantasy After Andersen

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
  • Ernest Bloch

    Schelomo - Hebrew rhapsody for cello and orchestra

    Featured Artist: Truls M酶rk. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Tabula rasa - concerto for 2 violins, strings and prepared piano

    Performer: Harry Traksmann. Performer: Robert Traksmann. Orchestra: Tallinna Kammerorkester. Conductor: T玫nu Kaljuste.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Friede auf Erden Op.13 for chorus

    Choir: Radiok枚ren. Director: Daniel Harding.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Die Erste Walpurgisnacht Op.60

    Performer: Ingrid Tobiasson. Performer: Bernard Richter. Performer: S Shenyang. Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell

    Orchestra: Tallinna Kammerorkester. Conductor: T玫nu Kaljuste.

Broadcast

  • Tue 11 Feb 2020 14:00