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Afternoon on 3: Richard Strauss

Afternoon Concert: Richard Strauss: Episode 1: Strauss in the Alps

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Episode 1

Episode 1: Strauss in the Alps

Richard Strauss

Strauss in the Alps

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Richard Strauss, Strauss in the Alps

Katie Derham with music by Strauss, focusing on the composer's love of the Alps.

Katie Derham presents music by Strauss performed across Europe: Horn Concerto No 1; Symphonic Interlude No 2; Eine Alpensinfonie. Plus Haas: Concerto grosso No 1 and Rameau.

Katie Derham features the music of Richard Strauss all week with performances recorded at concerts given throughout Europe in this, his 150th anniversary year. With performances by the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics later in the week, we start today with Semyon Bychkov, one of today's leading Straussians leading the French National Orchestra to the heady peaks of Strauss's Alpine Symphony. Also today, there's a chance to hear the world premiere of a work by the leading Austrian composer, Georg Friedrich Haas, which also explores the Alpine landscape with solos for a quartet of Alpine horns. 


Strauss
Horn Concerto no 1 in E flat, op.11
Stefan Dohr (horn)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

c. 2.15pm
Strauss
Symphonic Interlude No. 2 from 'Intermezzo, op. 72' 'Träumerei am Kamin'
Orchestre National de France, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)


Wagner
Wesendonck Lieder
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre National de France, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

c. 2.45pm 
Georg Friedrich Haas
Concerto Grosso No. 1, for alphorn quartet and orchestra (2014) (Première) 
Ensemble Hornroh
Balthasar Streiff, Helène Berglund, Jennifer Tauder, Michael Büttler (alphorns)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

c. 3.20pm
Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op. 64
Orchestre National de France, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Followed by music by Rameau.

Afternoon Concert: Richard Strauss

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Katie Derham presents a series programmes featuring the music of Strauss

Katie Derham presents a series programmes featuring the music of Strauss, with concerts given throughout Europe to mark his 150th anniversary year

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