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Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic's Season Opening Concert

Recorded at their new season opening concert, Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Max Reger's Variations on a Theme by Mozart and Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben.

To open their new season the dream team of Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic perform two late-Romantic works by Max Reger and Richard Strauss.

Reger's music has long-been a concert hall rarity but for the occasional outing for his Variations on a Theme by Mozart, an attractive Brahmsian pastiche from 1914. Reger imagined his music as a bulwark against what he called the 'unnatural quirkiness and eccentricity' of some of his contemporaries. It was the sort of criticism so often levelled at Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben 鈥� A Hero's Life 鈥� offended with its vain and overweening autobiographical narrative. But now it's Strauss's music which fills concert halls and we can enjoy Ein Heldenleben on its own terms, from the irresistible swagger and momentum of its opening, through to its poignant closing bars, all in delivered in Strauss's trademark dazzling orchestration.

Recorded last month at the Philharmonie, Berlin, and introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Max Reger: Variations on a Theme by Mozart

8.05 pm
Interval Music (from CD)
Mozart: Theme with Variations (Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331)
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

8.20pm
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Mon 25 Sep 2023 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Max Reger

    Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 "Alla Turca": I. Andante grazioso

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart, Mitsuko Uchida - The Piano Sonatas.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Richard Strauss

    Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.

  • William Shield

    Rosina; Act 2 "Light as thistledown"

    Singer: Joan Sutherland. Orchestra: Philomusica of London. Conductor: Granville Jones.
    • DECCA.

  • William Shield

    String Trio No.1 in E flat major

    Ensemble: Trio Szabadi.
    • HUNGAROTON.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Op 57, 'Appassionata'

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Kurt Weill

    Das Berliner Requiem

    Choir: Choeur de la Chapelle Royale de Paris. Ensemble: Ensemble Musique Oblique. Singer: Alexandre Laiter. Singer: Peter Kooij. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Weill: Vom Tod Im Wald etc..
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7-12.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Sep 2023 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3