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Afternoon Concert: Friday - Also sprach Zarathustra

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Friday - Also sprach Zarathustra

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Klaus Makela conducts Strauss's epic tone poem.

Finnish conductor Klaus Makela leads the Paris Orchestra in Strauss's epic tone poem, Also sprach Zarathustra, plus music by Verdi and CPE Bach.

Presented by Penny Gore, featuring concert recordings from BBC orchestras and ensembles from around Europe. 

Today at 3pm, Finnish conductor Klaus Makela leads the Paris Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra. Known to millions through its use in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as other films and TV shows, Strauss's Nietzsche-inspired tone poem takes us on an astounding musical and philosophical journey. Also today, there's more operatic fayre from the Berlin Philharmonic with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, and Kirill Petrenko conducts the orchestra in the fantasy piece Tchaikovsky was inspired to compose following a journey he made to Rome. Plus, the BBC Philharmonic with the first of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet suites.

Including: 

Verdi: Overture to 'La Forza del destino'
Berlin Philharmonic 
Orchestra Kirill Petrenko, conductor

R. Strauss: Festival March, Op.1
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

Verdi: La vita è inferno all’infelice from 'La forza del destino'
Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.1 (extracts)
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Giordano: Un di all' azzurro from 'Andrea Chenier'
Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko, conductor

3.00pm
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
Paris Orchestra
Klaus Makela, conductor

CPE Bach: Gott hat den Herrn auferwecket, Wq. 244
Hanna Zumsande, soprano
Daniel Johannsen, tenor
Henryk Bohm, bass
Thomanerchor
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Andreas Reise, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op.45
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko, conductor

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