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Hear and Now: 03/11/2012

03/11/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, 03/11/2012

Ivan Hewett presents music by Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm.

Ivan Hewett introduces Wolfgang Rihm's opera Jakob Lenz, in the ENO production with Andrew Shore as Lenz. Plus Heiner Goebbels's Suite for Sampler and Orchestra.

Ivan Hewett introduces a recording of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Jakob Lenz, based on the Buchner play about a celebrated 18th century poet who descends into insanity. And in this week's Hear and Now Fifty, Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Graham McKenzie celebrate German composer Heiner Goebbels, and his Suite for Sampler and Orchestra, part of Surrogate Cities, a cycle of works from 1994.

Heiner Goebbels: Suite for Sampler and Orchestra
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
Peter Rundel (conductor)

From approximately 10.40pm:
Wolfgang Rihm: Jakob Lenz
Jakob Lenz: Andrew Shore (baritone) 
Pastor Oberlin: Jonathan Best (bass-baritone) 
Christoph Kaufman: Richard Roberts (tenor) 
ENO Orchestra conducted by Alex Ingram 
Directed by Sam Brown 
English National Opera's production at Hampstead Theatre, recorded last April.

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