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Richard Strauss Weekend

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Lucia Popp (soprano)
Thirty years ago today, the composer Richard Strauss died at the age of 85. To mark the occasion. BBC2 is mounting two special programmes. Tomorrow night sees the British television premiere of The Legend of Joseph, a ballet commissioned from Strauss by Diaghilev. Tonight's concert features three of Strauss's orchestral works. SIR GEORG SOLTI talks about each work, and conducts the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in Death and Transfiguration Four Last Songs
(soloist LL'CIA POPP)
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Introduced and directed by HUMPHREY BURTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Georg Solti
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Unknown:
Richard Strauss
Talks:
Sir Georg Solti
Directed By:
Humphrey Burton
Source: Radio Times

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