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BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 66

BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 66: Part 1: Wagner, Strauss, Webern, Berg - Part 1

Wagner, Strauss, Webern, Berg - Part 1

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Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in music by Wagner and Strauss.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude (Act 1). Strauss: Four Last Songs. Karita Mattila (soprano).

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

In the second of their two BBC Proms this year, Simon Rattle and his renowned Berlin orchestra play music from the heart of the Austro-German repertoire.

The atmospheric prelude to Wagner's last opera, is followed by Richard Strauss's swansong, with popular Finnish soprano, Karita Mattila, composed in the 1940s but full of nostalgia for the first Romantic age.

After the interval, music from the avant-garde maelstrom of early twentieth-century Vienna, as Schoenberg and his pupils Berg and Webern take their cue from the innovations of Wagner, Strauss and Mahler to split traditional tonality at the seams.

Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude (Act 1)
R. Strauss: Four Last Songs

Karita Mattila (soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 10th September at 2.20pm.

BBC Proms: 2010

Prom 66

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Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Austro-German music

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Austro-German music, including the prelude to Wagner's last opera, Strauss's swansong, plus avant-garde works by Schoenberg and pupils Berg and Webern

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