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Two Great Romantics: Grieg and Schumann

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Excerpts from Grieg's incidental music to Peer Gynt and Schumann’s Cello Concerto.

Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen and BBC Philharmonic perform excerpts from Grieg's Peer Gynt, Alban Gerhardt plays Schumann’s Cello Concerto.

GRIEG: Peer Gynt – excerpts from the music for the play by Henrik Ibsen
1. At the Wedding (Prelude to Act 1)
2. The Abduction of the Bride: Ingrid’s Lament (Prelude to Act 2)
3. Morning Mood (Prelude to Act 4)
4. Solveig’s Song
5. Dance of the Mountain-King’s Daughter 

SCHUMANN:  Cello Concerto  

Lise Davidsen soprano
Alban Gerhardt cello
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor

Grieg’s Peer Gynt is one of Norway’s best known scores but it is usually performed in the form of concert suites which the composer compiled from his music for Ibsen’s play of the same name. A hundred and fifty years on from the play’s first publication, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Proms debut in excerpts from Grieg’s music for the stage version of Peer Gynt. Alban Gerhardt is the soloist for Schumann’s Cello Concerto which rejects overt solo virtuosity in favour of a dialogue between cello and orchestra.  
BBC Radio 3’s Andrew McGregor is joined by Oxford University Professor Daniel Grimley, one of the world’s leading experts on Scandinavian music.

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