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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SSO - Brahms, Strauss

Music from the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SSO conducted by Donald Runnicles. Brahms: Gesang der Parzen; Liebeslieder Waltzes; Shicksalslied. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben.

In the first of four specially recorded programmes from the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, tonight a chance to hear the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor, Donald Runnicles.

In the opening concert of this year's festival, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, celebrating 50 years, is featured in music by Brahms: three lyrical choral works with orchestra - Gesang der Parzen, Liebeslieder Waltzes and Schicksalslied.

And the concert continues with more Romanticism. A work which pushes orchestral performers as far as it does the narrative possibilities of tone-poem writing: Strauss's paean to an idealised hero, Ein Heldenleben.

Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Brahms: Gesang der Parzen
Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes
Brahms: Shicksalslied
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Edinburgh Festival Chorus (chorus master Christopher Bell)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 15 Sep 2015 19:30

Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Gesang der Parzen

  • Johannes Brahms

    Liebeslieder Waltzes

    Performer: Erik Werba. Performer: Günther Weissenborn. Singer: Waldemar Kmentt. Singer: Irmgard Seefried. Singer: Raili Kostia. Singer: Eberhard Wächter.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Schiksalslied

  • Richard Strauss

    Ein Heldenleben

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D Minor D810 'Death and the Maiden'

    Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs for piano, no.4; Alborada del gracioso

    Performer: Artur Pizarro.
    • Artur Pizarro: Ravel Volume One.
    • Linn.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Sep 2015 19:30