From the Royal Albert Hall , London. A heady late-Romantic glow suffuses this programme with one of Wagner's great tone pictures from his opera cycle The
Ring, the radiant songs that were studies for his darkly erotic opera Tristan und Isolde, and Bruckner's deeply felt symphony dedicated to Wagner.
Ann Murray(mezzo), Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer
Wagner Dawn: Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung); Wesendonk Lieder
7.40 Twenty Minutes: The South
A series of talks in which writers immerse themselves in the idea of the south.
7: Roger Deakin , writer and naturalist, recounts his journeys and those of other writers to the warmer climates of the Mediterranean and Morocco.
8.00 Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor Repeated Thursday 31 August 2pm