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Afternoon on 3: Strauss 150

Afternoon Concert: Strauss 150: Episode 4

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Episode 4

Strauss 150

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Strauss 150, Episode 4

Wagner: Parsifal (Prelude to Act 1). Strauss: Six Songs; Oboe Concerto; Ein Heldenleben.

With Verity Sharp. Wagner: Parsifal (Prelude to Act 1). Strauss: Six Songs. Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter). Strauss: Oboe Concerto; Ein Heldenleben.

Verity Sharp presents the Oboe Concerto - late, post-War Strauss - and a work from the end of the previous century. In the tone poem Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) Strauss outraged his critics by making himself its hero. Ein Heldenleben was dedicated to the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and its conductor Willem Mengelberg. Strauss had been impressed by what was then, and still very much is, one of the world's great orchestras. Today's performance of this orchestral tour de force is played by them and their current Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons, recorded at a special concert celebrating their 125-year anniversary

Plus music from Strauss's conducting repertoire: Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony and the Prelude to Act 1 from Wagner's Parsifal.

Wagner: Parsifal (Prelude to Act 1)
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Edward Downes (conductor)

2.15 pm
Strauss: Six songs
Liebeshymnus Op 32 No 3
Die Heiligen drei Konige aus Morgenland Op 56 No 6
Fruhlingsfeier Op 56 No 5
Winterliebe Op 48 No 5
Gesang der Apollopriesterin Op 33 No 2
Zueignung Op 10 No 1
Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 (Jupiter)
NDR Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

3.15 pm
Strauss: Oboe Concerto
François Leleux (oboe)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Koenig (conductor)

3.45 pm
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Strauss 150

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Series of programmes marking the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss's birth

Programmes marking the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss's birth, including tone poems and concertos, plus music by two of the other composers he loved and performed the most, Mozart and Wagner.

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