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| Afternoon On 3 | ...RICHARD STRAUSS: Four Last Songs... |
| Afternoon Performance | ...With Martin Handley. In the last of this week's programmes, the BBC Philharmonic plays Strauss' tone poem Ein Heldenleben, which translates either as "a hero's life", or "a heroic life". The hero in question is in no doubt though: RICHARD STRAUSS himself.... |
| Artist Focus | ...With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. We hear her as the Marschallin in an award-winning recording of RICHARD STRAUSS' Rosenkavalier.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 Live | ...RICHARD STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegel... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...The conclusion to the evening's Prom features two works by RICHARD STRAUSS - his sparkling, waltz-infused Der Rosenkavalier Suite and the Oboe Concerto, written in the aftermath of the Second World War and one of the last fruits of his 'Indian summer'.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 [world Service] | ...Featuring music by RICHARD STRAUSS, Mozart, Elliott Carter and Messiaen.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Penny Gore presents the second half of this evening's Prom, which features Janine Janson as soloist in Bruch's ever-popular concerto followed by RICHARD STRAUSS's orchestral portrait of impudent trickster Till Eulenspiegel.... |
| Bbc Proms Chamber Music | ...The Ensemble also perform RICHARD STRAUSS' string sextet from his last opera, Capriccio, and give the world premiere of a BBC commission - a new string sextet written specially for the Aronowitz Ensemble by Welsh composer Huw Watkins, with a title inspired by a phrase from the Philip Larkin poem Sad Steps.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles, the BBC SSO's chief conductor-designate, leads his players in RICHARD STRAUSS's gargantuan and virtuosic orchestral canvas inspired by family life in the Strauss household - including bathtime and a vivid bedroom scene.... |
| Century Songs | ...Susan Sharpe introduces the first of five song recitals live from the Bath International Music Festival. Devised and accompanied by pianist Iain Burnside, the five concerts include 100 songs by 100 composers, ten songs from each decade of the last century. The composers range from RICHARD STRAUSS to Dominic Muldowney, and from Cole Porter to Victoria Wood.... |
| Charles Hazlewood Show, The | ...Other featured music includes Nigel Kennedy performing After the Rain, RICHARD STRAUSS' Freundliche Vision, sung by Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Mozart's Overture from The Abduction of The Seraglio, Björk's The Boho Dance and JS Bach's Prelude in D minor.... |
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| Cosmic Shindig | ...Bill sings and plays guitars, keyboards and the entrancing theremin. Musical excerpts under the spotlight include Mahler, Rossini, RICHARD STRAUSS, Shostakovich, 1970s cops shows, a new Carnival of Animals by Anne Dudley and a secret obsession with music of the Bee Gees.... |
| Discord - Music And Dissent | ...Peter Ainsworth examines the ideological and moral dilemmas faced by RICHARD STRAUSS (whose name means ostrich) and other composers under the Third Reich.... |
| Discovering Music | ...In the 1940's, RICHARD STRAUSS entered what has become known as his "INDIAn Summer", writing a series of serene, nostalgic masterpieces. The Four Last Songs were his farewell to composition. In this studio edition, Charles Hazelwood reveals something of their autumnal character, contrasting them with two songs, also composed for Strauss's favourite soprano voice, from much earlier in his career.... |
| Interval Talk | ...Michael Kennedy explores the friendship between RICHARD STRAUSS and Elgar which not only overcame the barriers of distance, language and a war but also manifested itself in music.... |
| Just A Sliver Of Cane | ...Before Alexei Ogrintchouk performs the Oboe Concerto by RICHARD STRAUSS, Hayley Walters - with oboists Olivia Duque and Richard Simpson - explores that close and intense relationship all oboe players nurture - with their reeds.... |
| Music Matters | ...With Tom Service The operas of RICHARD STRAUSS are hugely popular - a new production of Arabella is one of three Strauss operas staged by the Royal Opera House this year. Music Matters asks whether the composer's genius for operatic music is matched by his characterisation and plot.... |
| Opera In Action | ...Stephen Johnson continues his series rediscovering some great opera performers. The sheer beauty of her voice made the soprano Sena Jurinac a natural interpreter of the great Mozart operas. But as her voice matured, she proved her versatility in roles such as Monteverdi's Poppea and the Composer in RICHARD STRAUSS's `Ariadne auf Naxos'.... |
| Opera On 3 - Live From The Met | ...RICHARD STRAUSS' Die Agyptische Helena continues, live from the New York Met.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Leopold Hager conducts an all-star cast of soloists and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a concert performance of RICHARD STRAUSS's last opera. Described by the composer as a 'conversation piece' on the subject of opera it seeks to establish which is most important, the words or the music? Given in the Usher Hall as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and presented by Christopher Cook in conversation with Michael Kennedy.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Oliver Knussen conducts music by some of his great heroes and friends. His teacher Gunther Schuller celebrates his 80th birthday this year; 2005 is the centenary of Michael Tippett's birth; and Elliott Carter is still composing at the age of 96. Carter's recent witty little concert-opener Micomicon was inspired by an episode from Cervantes' Don Quixote - which in turn inspired RICHARD STRAUSS back in 1897.... |
| Playing Hitler's Tune | ...Courted by Hitler, composer RICHARD STRAUSS and conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler were both set up as figureheads in Nazi Germany. Recent research suggests that history may have treated one too kindly and the other too harshly.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley meets Nicholas de Jongh, chief theatre critic of the LONDON Evening Standard, whose choice of music includes Bach, Schubert, Mozart, RICHARD STRAUSS and Mahler.... |
| Prom Interval Documentary | ...David Huckvale visits the sumptuous villa in Garmisch, which RICHARD STRAUSS built with the proceeds of his scandalous opera `Salome' and used as a refuge from the world for four decades until his death there in 1949. Huckvale meets the composer's grandson, Dr CHRISTIAN Strauss, and his wife Susanne, and also plays Strauss's piano.... |
| Proms Feature - Strauss - A Musical Ostrich? | ...David Huckvale investigates RICHARD STRAUSS's relationship with the Nazi regime, with contributions from the composer's grandson Dr CHRISTIAN Strauss, biographers Michael Kennedy and Matthew Boyden, scholars Timothy Jackson and Eik Levi, Viennese observers Otto Biba and Clemens Hellsberg, and recordings from the BBC Sound Archive.... |
| Proms Plus | ...Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote is one of fiction's best-loved characters and the hero of a book many consider a landmark of modern literature. The knight has featured in artworks by Dore, Dali and Picasso, and has been the inspiration for music by Telemann, Mendelssohn and RICHARD STRAUSS.... |
| Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert | ...Violinist Leonidas Kavakos appears in the Queens Hall at the Edinburgh International Festival with pianist Enrico Pace in a programme of 19th and 20th century masterworks by Schnittke, Shostakovich and RICHARD STRAUSS.... |
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| Something Understood | ...Classicist Llewellyn Morgan explores how different attitudes towards tomorrow reflect the way in which we deal with our fear of the unknown. With readings from Derek Mahon, Simonides and Graham Swift, and music by Vaughan Williams, Townes Van Zandt and RICHARD STRAUSS ... |
| Soul Music | ...RICHARD STRAUSS' Four Last Songs... |
| Sound Stories | ...With Donald Macleod. The stories of the men who wrote the words for some of the best-loved operas and oratorios. 5: Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Hofmannsthal was an immensely cultured Viennese whose poetry and prose writings would ensure his reputation quite apart from his celebrated if sometimes difficult partnership with RICHARD STRAUSS. With excerpts from Strauss operas: Le bourgeois gentilhomme; Salome; Elektra; Der Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Die Josephslegende; Die Frau ohne Schatten; and Arabella.... |
| Summer Selection | ...RICHARD STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier - Final trio... |
| Sunday Morning | ...An exploration of musical life in Switzerland past and present. Iain's guest is pianist, composer and Zurich resident Edward Rushton, and music includes Honegger, Martin, Goetz and RICHARD STRAUSS.... |
| Voices | ...Iain Burnside introduces a specially recorded recital of German Romantic orchestral songs by RICHARD STRAUSS, Mahler, Korngold, Reger and Liszt.... |
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