I from the Royal
Festival Hall,
London.
Margaret Price, Christine Brewer and Lisa Milne
(sopranos)
Ruby Philogene and Catherine Denley (altos) Ian Bostridge and David Maxwell Anderson (tenors) Thomas Hampson (baritone) Kurt Rydl and Jonathan Best (basses)
London Philharmonic Choir
Choir of King's College School
LPO/Franz Welser-Most Schumann Scenes from
Goethe's "Faust", Parts 1 and 2 8.15 Friedrich's Vision of the Landscape
Today Caspar David
Friedrich is regarded as one of the central figures of the German Romantic
Movement. Neil MacGregor. Director of the National
Gallery, describes the artist's search to define his art as a language of feeling, intuition and inner vision.
With readings from Friedrich's letters by George Parsons.
8.35 Schumann
Scenes from Goethe's 's
"Faust", Part 3
DEUTSCHE ROMANTIK