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Radio 3 in Concert: BBC Philharmonic: Hansel and Gretel

BBC Philharmonic: Hansel and Gretel

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, BBC Philharmonic: Hansel and Gretel

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

The BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in Tippett's The Rose Lake, Beethoven's Eighth Symphony and a selection of music from Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel.

Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and presented by Miriam Skinner.

Andrew Davis joins the BBC Philharmonic for warm, luscious melody and fairy-tale in a selection of favourite music from Humperdinck's opera 'Hansel and Gretel'.  We'll hear the beautiful opening Prelude and then journey with Gretel and Hansel though Act II, enduring the terrors of the forest until the Sandman appears to send them dreaming, guarded over by angels.  

Beethoven's sparky Eighth Symphony ends a programme which begins with Michael Tippett's The Rose Lake; his inspiration drawn from a visit to Lake Retba in Senegal, a salt-rich lake that glows, as Tippett recalled, "a marvellous translucent pink". Tippett describes the piece as a "song without words for orchestra ... also manifesting a progression from dawn to dusk".  Conducted by Andrew Davis we hear all this evening's music in the hands of a musician who brings a lifetime's knowledge and love to it.


Tippett: The Rose Lake
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel:  Act I Prelude and Act II
Beethoven: Symphony No.8 

Olivia Boen (Gretel, soprano)
Siena Licht Miller (Hansel, mezzo)
Jennifer France (Sandman, soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

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