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From the Royal Festival Hall, a programme of works which belie their composers' modernist reputations. Webern's Im
Sommerwind and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande -with its famous love triangle - both took their inspiration from literature and are rich, lyrical examples of late Romanticism. Berg's Lulu suite-taken from his opera - tells of another bitter love story.
Valdine Anderson (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ulf Schirmer
Webem Im Sommerwind
Berg Symphonic Pieces (Lulu)
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Poems in Reply Christopher Ricks demonstrates poets' love of replying to each other - from the comic to the barbed, from TS Eliot to GK Chesterton.
8.40 Schoenberg Pelleas and Melisande

Contributors

Soprano:
Valdine Anderson
Conductor:
Ulf Schirmer
Conductor:
Webem Im Sommerwind
Unknown:
Christopher Ricks
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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