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BBC Proms: 2020 Live: Viennese Night

Viennese Night

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A celebration of Viennese operetta with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Bramwell Tovey.

Bramwell Tovey conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme to mark Lehar's 150th anniversary, including favourites from The Merry Widow, and works by his contemporaries.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Bramwell Tovey.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Marking 150 years since the birth of Franz Lehár – and recalling the long-running Proms tradition of the ‘Viennese Night’ begun in the 1950s – the BBC Concert Orchestra and Bramwell Tovey step into the gilded ballroom of operetta, evoking the glamour and sophistication of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

The concert features some of Lehár’s most popular titles such as The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles and Giuditta, as well as music by some of his contemporaries.  Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra, takes the role of Paganini with a solo from Lehar’s operetta of the same name, and the evening also includes excerpts from the most enduring and popular operetta of them all, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus. 

Lehar: Overture (The Merry Widow)
Oscar Straus:  Don’t eat them all, you greedy man (from The Chocolate Soldier)
Lehar: Meine lippen sie Küssen so heiss (from Giuditta) 
Kalman: Gruss mir mein Wien (from Gräfin Mariza)
Johann Strauss II:  Overture (Die Fledermaus)                                           
Lehar, arr Dexter: Prelude and Violin solo (from Paganini)     
Heuberger: Im Chambre separée (from Opera Ball)  
Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz
Lehar: Es lebt eine Vilja (from The Merry Widow)     
Lehar:  You are my heart’s delight (from The Land of Smiles) 
Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss: Pizzicato Polka                                                              	
Johann Strauss II: The Watch Duet (from Die Fledermaus)

Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Robert Murray (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

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