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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 Big Song Weekend: Strauss, Pfitzner, Thuille Songs

Strauss, Pfitzner, Thuille Songs

Radio 3 Big Song Weekend

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Pianist Joseph Middleton curates a song series exploring the glories of Richard Strauss.

Richard Strauss's songs, in a series recorded in 2019 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, with Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert and pianist Joseph Middleton.

The second in a series of four concerts curated by pianist Joseph Middleton celebrating the glories of Richard Strauss's songs. Recorded in 2019 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and introduced by Petroc Trelawny, the Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert's programme sets Strauss's Opus 15 songs into context with those of his contemporaries Hans Pfitzner and close friend and sometime rival Ludwig Thuille. 

Richard Strauss: Funf Lieder, Op.15
Madrigal
Winternacht
Lob des Leidens
Aus den Liedern der Trauer
Heimkehr 

Hans Pfitzner: Nachts, Op.26 no 2
Hans Pfitzner: Lockung, Op.7 no 4 
Hans Pfitzner: Nachtwanderer, Op.7 no 2 
Hans Pfitzner: Abschied, op.9 no 5 

Ludwig Thuille: Opus 12 
Waldensamkeit
Die Nacht
Di Stille Nacht 

Richard Strauss: Standchen, Op 17 no.2
Richard Strauss: Breit' über mein Haupt, Op 19 no.2
Richard Strauss: Mein Herz is Stumm, Op 19 no.6
Richard Strauss: All mein Gedanken, Op 21 no.1
Richard Strauss: Du meines Herzens Krönelein
Richard Strauss: Befreit, Op 39 no.4 

Sophie Rennert, mezzo-soprano 
Joseph Middleton, piano

Produced by Johannah Smith, BBC Wales

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 Big Song Weekend

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.

Pianist Joseph Middleton curates a song series celebrating the glories of Richard Strauss.

Pianist Joseph Middleton curates a series of recitals celebrating the glories of Richard Strauss's songs. Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

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