Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 Big Song Weekend: Strauss, Zemlinsky, Debussy Songs

Strauss, Zemlinsky, Debussy Songs

Radio 3 Big Song Weekend

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

Richard Strauss and Debussy songs, in a series curated by pianist Joseph Middleton, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, recorded in 2019 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Pianist Joseph Middleton continues his series celebrating the glories of Richard Strauss's songs. Recorded in 2019 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, in the centre of Cardiff, soprano Carolyn Sampson places Strauss's poignant Morgen and  Madchenblumen, Op.22 in context with songs by his contemporaries Alexander von Zemlinsky and Debussy.
Introduced by Petroc Trelawny. 

Richard Strauss: Opus 22
Kornblumen 
Mohnblumen
Epheu 
Wasserrose

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Briefchen schrieb ich, Op.6 no 6
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Das Rosenband (Drei lieder) 
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Liebe Schwalbe, Op.6 no 1
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Liebe und Fruhling (Sieben Lieder) 

Debussy: Ariettes oubliees 
C'est l'extase langoureuse
Il pleure dans mon Coeur 
L'ombre des arbres
Chevaux de bois 
Green
Spleen 

Richard Strauss: Schlagende Herzen, Op.29 no 2 
Richard Strauss: Gluckes genug, Op.37 no 1
Richard Strauss: Meinem kinde, Op.37 no 3 
Richard Strauss: Morgen, Op.27 no 4 

Carolyn Sampson, soprano 
Joseph Middleton, piano

Produced by Johannah Smith, BBC Wales

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 Big Song Weekend

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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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