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Afternoon on 3: Richard Strauss

Afternoon Concert: Richard Strauss: Episode 2: Horn Concerto No 2, Don Quixote

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Episode 2: Horn Concerto No 2, Don Quixote

Richard Strauss

Horn Concerto No 2, Don Quixote

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Richard Strauss, Horn Concerto No 2, Don Quixote

With Katie Derham. Strauss: Horn Concerto No 2; Don Quixote. Schubert: Symphony No 9.

Katie Derham with a Strauss celebration. Munich Philharmonic in Strauss: Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat. Plus the Berlin Philharmonic in Don Quixote. Schubert: Symphony No 9 (Great).

Katie Derham continues this week's exploration of the music of Richard Strauss beginning today with his Second Horn Concerto. Written in Vienna during the Second World War, it is a characteristic late work by the composer which reflects in every bar his life-long love affair with the horn. Indeed Strauss's father was for fifty years the noted and famously truculent principal horn of the Munich Court Opera Orchestra, so this performance recorded in Munich is particularly apt. 
Also today, Semyon Bychkov leads the Berlin Philharmonic and its principals in Strauss's Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character and Schubert's towering 'Great C Major' symphony. Written towards the end of Schubert's short life, it was Schumann who was the first to realise the significance of this hour long symphony lying on the shelves of Schubert's brother, Ferdinand: "The sight of this hoard of riches thrilled me with joy..." he wrote, "There, among the piles, lay a heavy volume of 130 pages, dated March 1828 at the top of the first sheet. The manuscript is entirely in Schubert's hand, which often appears to have been flying as fast as his pen could go."

Strauss
Horn Concerto no 2 in E flat
Jörg Brückner (horn) 
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)


c. 2.40pm 
Strauss
Don Quixote, op. 35
Máté Szücs (viola)
Bruno Delepelaire (cello)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)


c.3.25pm 
Schubert
Symphony no 9 in C major 'The Great'
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor).

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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