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Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series: Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau

Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau

Queen's Hall Series

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Lieder and song by Strauss, Poulenc and Debussy from 2015.

One of Britain's finest singers Sarah Connolly and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform Schoenberg, Debussy, Strauss and Korngold from the Queen's Hall at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall over the past decade. Today Donald Macleod introduces one of Britain’s finest singers Sarah Connolly, and acclaimed pianist Malcolm Martineau in recital.  They 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. Recorded at The Queen's Hall as part of the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival. 

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

INTERVAL: Donald Macleod explores some of the great film music of this era: Rozsa’s Spellbound Concerto and Korngold’s The Sea Hawk

Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis
Poulenc: Banalités
Strauss: Die Nacht; Sehnsucht
Korngold: Sterbelied; Mond, so gehst diu wieder auf; Welt ist stille eingeschlafen; Unvergänglichkeit
Dominic Muldowney/James Fenton: In Paris With You


Sarah Connolly - mezzo-soprano 
Malcolm Martineau - piano


Photograph - Christopher Pledger

Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series

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Stand-out concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh over the past decade.

Broadcasts of some of the stand-out concerts from the Queen's Hall series over the past decade at the Edinburgh International Festival.

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