4. Schubert and Grieg: Camilla Tilling, Neal Davies, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen
11 October 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Thrilling orchestral songs with two top singers; BBC National Orchestra of Wales with the leading Dutch conductor Jac van Steen; songs of myths, legends and Nordic landscapes: a spectacular opening-night concert in the splendour of Oxford’s Town Hall.
Music by Schubert includes part of the incidental music of Rosamunde, as well as songs from mythology including ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Erlkönig’, in orchestrations by Berlioz, Brahms and Reger. BBC NOW also performs the first of Grieg’s Peer Gynt suites, with the hair-raising ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’, alongside songs from Peer Gynt including the haunting ‘Solveig’s Song’. The programme also features Sibelius’s masterful tone-poem for soprano and orchestra, Luonnotar, setting texts from the Kalevala.
Programme
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Rosamunde Overture (1823) D. 797 from Rosamunde
- Ariette / Romanze (Der Vollmond Strahlt) (1823) D797 no.3
- An Schwager Kronos (1816) D369
- Prometheus (1819) D674
- Du bist die Ruh (1823) D776
- Gruppe aus dem Tartarus D583
- Memnon (1817) D541
- Erlkönig (1815) D328
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- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Gebet (1888) no.28 from Mörike-Lieder
- Anakreons Grab (1889) no.29 from Goethe-Lieder
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- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Luonnotar (1913) Op. 70
- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Morning Mood Op. 46 from Peer Gynt Suite No.1
- Solveigs Sang (Solveig's Song) (1867) from Peer Gynt
- Anitra's Dance Op. 46 from Peer Gynt Suite No.1
- The Death of Åse Op. 46 from Peer Gynt Suite No.1
- Peer Gynt's Serenade (1867) from Peer Gynt
- Solveigs Vuggesang (Solveig's Cradle Song) (1867) from Peer Gynt
- In the Hall of the Mountain King Op. 46 from Peer Gynt Suite No.1
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11 October 2019 | 10:00am