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Radio 3 in Concert: Fantastic Fairytales from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Fantastic Fairytales from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Fantastic Fairytales from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

The Bournemouth Symphony in 'Fantastic Fairytales,' from Ravel, Mahler and Humperdinck.

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra perform Ravel's Mother Goose and a suite from Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Sarah Connolly sings from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra present 'Fantastic Fairytales,' with music by Ravel, Mahler and Humperdinck.

The orchestra's programme opens with Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, fairy-tale miniatures evoking a delicate, magical world. Then the Great British mezzo Dame Sarah Connolly joins them for five of Mahler's settings of poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) - tales of love, mystery, horror, magic and humour, captivated Mahler. Grace-Evangeline Mason then takes us on a journey deep into the woods. And this fantastical programme ends in the Romantic world of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. 

Presented by Martin Handley

Ravel: Ma Mere l'Oye - Mother Goose Suite
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Rheinlegend, Das irdische Leben, Verlorne Muh, Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen and Urlicht

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Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Imagined Forest
Humperdinck arr Rudolf Kempe: Hansel and Gretel Suite. 

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole.

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