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成人快手 NOW play Zemlinsky and Mahler

Martyn Brabbins conducts the 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales in Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck Songs, with mezzo Sarah Connolly, and Mahler's Fourth Symphony, with soprano Rowan Pierce.

In life, Zemlinsky and Mahler were in competition for the love of Alma Schindler, who spurned Zemlinsky to marry Mahler, but together their musical compositions form an important bridge between 19th-century romanticism and 20th-century modernism. The two pieces presented here were written only 13 years apart and highlight their differing responses to the new century, as well as the similarities present in both composers.

Zemlinsky's 6 Songs to Poems by Maurice Maeterlinck frame the works of the Belgian Symbolist poet, a recent Nobel Laureate at the time they were written, with gorgeous shifting harmonies. We'll hear the work tonight in a brand new chamber arrangement by composer John Pickard, sung by Dame Sarah Connolly. Mahler's Fourth Symphony is based on the song Das himmlische Leben, whose melody Mahler revisited throughout his career, but here it suffuses the whole work. Tonight it will be performed by Rowan Pierce in Erwin Stein's chamber arrangement, where the glory of Mahler's epic writing is never lost, despite employing considerably smaller forces than the original symphony.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, and recorded in Hoddinott Hall on 19th November.

Zemlinksy, arr Pickard: 6 Songs to Poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op 13

7.55pm
Interval Music

8.15pm
Mahler, arr Stein: Symphony No 4 in G major

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Rowan Pierce (soprano)
成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 8 Dec 2020 19:30
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    6 Maeterlinck Songs, Op 13

    Music Arranger: John Pickard. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Unverganglichkeit, Op 27

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • Sonnett fur Wien.
    • Signum.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    6 Songs, Op 8 (No 2, Das Wappenschild)

    Ensemble: Linus Ensemble. Singer: Simone Nold.
    • The Chamber Music Arrangements.
    • CapriccioNR.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 4 in G major

    Music Arranger: Erwin Stein. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Singer: Rowan Pierce.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si puo fare, Op 8 No 6

    Singer: Mariana Flores. Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea. Conductor: Leonardo Garc铆a Alarc贸n.
    • Ambronay.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    L'usignuolo [The Nightingale] Op.1 no.5

    Singer: Mariana Flores. Singer: Fabi谩n Schofrin. Singer: Jaime Caicompai. Singer: Matteo Bellotto. Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea. Director: Leonardo Garc铆a Alarc贸n.
    • Ambronay.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    De Profundis

    Performer: Geir Draugsvoll.
    • BIS.

  • Florence Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • CAMBRIA.

  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Maria Magdalene stabat

    Ensemble: Musica Secreta.
    • Dialogues with Heaven.
    • LINN.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Dec 2020 19:30
    成人快手 Radio 3