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Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4

Acts 4 and 5 of Handel's opera Teseo. Plus BBC SSO in music by Weill and Schoenberg.

Louise Fryer introduces Acts 4 and 5 of Handel's opera Teseo, from the 2011 Gottingen International Handel Festival. Plus BBC SSO in Weill: Symphony No 2 and Schoenberg: Erwartung.

Louise Fryer introduces the final acts of Handel's opera, Teseo, performed at the Gottingen International Handel Festival 2011. 

Plus this week's focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concludes with two twentieth-century German composers. Andrew Gourlay conducts Kurt Weill's Second Symphony - the music he was writing when he was forced to flee the country when Hitler took over in 1933. And the BBC SSO's Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher conducts a performance of Schoenberg's Erwartung, with the dramatic monologue role of a despairing lover searching for her beloved taken by soprano Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet.

Handel: Teseo, Acts 4-5
Teseo ..... Susanne Ryden (soprano)
Agilea ..... Amy Freston (soprano)
Medea ..... Dominique Labelle (soprano)
Clizia ..... Celine Ricci (soprano)
Egeo ..... Robin Blaze (altus)
Minerva ..... Johanna Ness (soprano)
Egeo ..... Drew Minter (counter-tenor)
New York Baroque Dance Company
Gottingen Festival Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).

Weill: Symphony no. 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

Schoenberg: Erwartung
Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet (soprano) 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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.

Louise Fryer presents concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Louise Fryer presents excerpts from a series of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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