Prom 5: Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid
Live at the ±«Óătv Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the ±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales perform Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande.
Live at the ±«Óătv Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the ±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales perform Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande.
Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
7.30pm
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Mellisande, Op 5
c.8.20pm
INTERVAL: Penny is joined in the Radio 3 box by Professor Sarah Peverley from the University of Liverpool, an expert on the Middle Ages and mythical creatures who is writing a book The Mermaid’s Tale: A Cultural History of Mermaids. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and having been chosen as a ±«Óătv/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she has contributed to Free Thinking and Radio 3’s The Essay.
c.8.40pm
Zemlinsky: The Mermaid
±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
At a concert in Vienna on 25 January 1905, two new, contrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits. But Alexander Zemlinsky wasn’t going to let Schoenberg (also his brother-in-law) steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve in his orchestral response to the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. Ryan Bancroft marshals his ±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales in two monumental tearjerkers that share far more than a birthday.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Pelleas Und Melisande - Symphonic Poem Op.5
Orchestra: ±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft. -
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid) - Fantasy After Andersen
Orchestra: ±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft. -
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Joseph Haydn
Octet (Divertimento No.1) in G major
Orchestra: Combattimento. Director: Jan Willem de Vriend.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
Performer: Igor Levit.- Sony.
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Franz Schubert
Music for Rosamunde, D.797: Ballet music II
Orchestra: SaarbrĂĽcken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Gielen.- SWR MUSIC.
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