
79 Season
1139 Episode
BBC Proms - Season 41 Episode 4 Live from the Proms
Schoenberg's 'Gurrelieder' conducted by Pierre Boulez Gurra is the name of a Danish castle. Schoenberg, later to become the self-confessed 'bogeyman of 20th-century music' composed his massive, romantic work Songs of Gurra on near operatic scale - a kind of post-Wagnerian Tristan and Isolde. Jessye Norman (soprano) Elizabeth Lawrence (mezzo) Kenneth Riegel (tenor) Walter Raffeiner (tenor) John Brocheler (bass) Gerd Nienstadt (baritone) BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus Brighton Festival Chorus Royal Choral Society Philharmonia Chorus (men's voices) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, leader GEOFFREY SILVER Introduced by Michael Berkeley
- Year: 2025
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- Keyword: classical music, concert film
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