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Edinburgh International Festival

Music: Classical

Ronald Brautigam, Esther Hoppe & Christian Poltéra

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh International Festival: 2015 Queen's Hall Series

Edinburgh International Festival: 2015 Queen's Hall Series: Episode 6: Queen's Hall Series: Sarah Connolly

2015 Queen's Hall Series

Episode 6

Episode 6: Queen's Hall Series: Sarah Connolly

Queen's Hall Series: Sarah Connolly

BBC Radio 3 - Edinburgh International Festival, 2015 Queen's Hall Series, Queen's Hall Series: Sarah Connolly

Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau perform songs by Strauss, Poulenc and Debussy.

Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform songs and lieder by Schoenberg, Debussy, Strauss and Korngold.

One of Britain's finest singers, Sarah Connolly, and acclaimed pianist Malcolm Martineau perform a richly romantic programme of songs and lieder contrasting the fin-de-siècle Vienna of Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Strauss with the cool eroticism of Debussy and eccentricity of Poulenc. as well as works by Austrian émigré composers Eisler and Korngold live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. Presented by Donald Macleod

Schoenberg: Erwartung; Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm
Zemlinsky: Six Maeterlinck Songs
Eisler: Five Hollywood Elegies

11.35 am Interval:
Donald Macleod explores some of the great film music of this era.
Rozsa: Spellbound Concerto
Korngold: The Sea Hawk

11.55 am 
Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis
Poulenc: Banalités
Strauss: Die Nacht; Sehnsucht
Korngold: Sterbelied; Mond, so gehst diu wieder auf; Welt ist stille eingeschlafen; Unvergänglichkeit.

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.

Concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh for the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival.

Concerts given at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh as part of the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival

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