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Composer of the Week in Venice

on BBC Radio 3

5/5. Death in Venice. Venice's air of melancholy and decay has captured the imaginations of literary giants such as Proust, Thomas Mann and Henry James. Donald Macleod follows the theme of Mann's novella and searches for
"death in Venice".
Offenbach Barcarolle (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) Jessye Norman (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Brussels Theatre Royal de la Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sylvain Cambreling Liszt La Lugubre Gondola Alfred Brendel (piano)
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles (excerpt) Susan Bickley (contralto),
New London Chamber Choir,
London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen Wagner Siegfried 's Death and Funeral March (Gotterdammerung)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan Prelude, Act 3: Tristan und Isolde
Berlin PO, conductor Daniel Barenboim Britten Death in Venice (excerpt)
Peter Pears (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Mann
Unknown:
Henry James.
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Soprano:
Jessye Norman
Soprano:
Ann Murray
Conductor:
Sylvain Cambreling
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Contralto:
Susan Bickley
Conductor:
Oliver Knussen
Conductor:
Wagner Siegfried
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Conductor:
Britten Death
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Tenor:
John Shirley-Quirk
Conductor:
Steuart Bedford

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