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Radio 3 Live in Concert: BBC SSO - Detlev Glanert, Brahms, Schumann

BBC SSO - Detlev Glanert, Brahms, Schumann

22/03/2012

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Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC SSO in music by Detlev Glanert, Brahms and Schumann.

Donald Runnicles leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Detlev Glanert: Brahms-Fantasie (world premiere). Brahms: Alto Rhapsody. Schumann: Symphony No 4. Brahms: Symphony No 1.

Live from City Halls, Glasgow 

Presented by Jamie MacDougall 

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Donald Runnicles perform Brahms's towering Symphony No.1 from the orchestra's home in the City Halls, Glasgow. It is complimented by one of Brahms's most uplifting choral works, the Goethe-inspired Alto Rhapsody, featuring mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and the men of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, and the original incarnation of Schumann's Symphony No. 4, from 1841. The influence of Beethoven can clearly be felt in Brahms's symphonic composition - and for this evening's concert Brahms's influence can be heard in a specially composed fantasy for orchestra by German composer, Detlev Glanert, commissioned as a companion piece to Brahms' Symphony No.1, by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC SSO. 

Detlev Glanert: Brahms-Fantasie (world premiere) 
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody 
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (original version) 

8.30pm Interval 
Jamie MacDougall speaks to tonight's soloist, Sarah Connolly, and we hear a selection of her recent recordings of songs by Schumann, Brahms and Kurt Weill.

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) 
Men of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

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