Breaking Free: Wednesday - Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein presents Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht played live by principal players of Aurora Orchestra.
Suzy Klein begins the new year with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news; and as part of Radio 3's Breaking Free, Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra perform one of Arnold Schoenberg's most passionate works, Verkl盲rte Nacht Op. 4. Schoenberg composed the sextet during a three-week period in September 1899, while he was holidaying in the Austrian countryside near the mountain resort of Semmering.
Plus live performance from members of the cast of All the Angels - Handel and the First Messiah which is currently on at the Globe's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Also:
Twelve ways of listening to Schoenberg's journey to serial music, in the words of Tom Service and Schoenberg himself.
The Listening Service Extra - Episode 7: Expressive Melodies. Tom looks at Schoenberg's own demonstration of how to harmonize a melody to maximum effect, using his Orchestral Variations as an example. As Schoenberg says: "There is nothing I long for more intensely than to be taken for a better sort of Tchaikovsky".
Part of Radio 3's "Breaking Free - the minds that changed music", exploring the music of the Second Viennese School.
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Watch: Schoenberg's explosive Verkl盲rte Nacht
Duration: 29:05
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The Listening Service Extra 7 of 12 - Expressive Melodies
Duration: 04:04
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Francois Couperin /arr. Thomas Ades
Les Baricades misterieuses [from ordre no.6]
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George Frideric Handel
Let all the Angels
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Les Baricades misterieuses [from ordre no.6]
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George Frideric Handel
Let all the Angels
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George Frideric Handel
And the Glory of the Lord; Surely He Hath Borne Our Grief
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George Frideric Handel & Academy of Ancient Music
He was despised
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Alban Berg
Passacaglia
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Domenico Scarlatti
Concerto Grosso no, 2 in C minor 1) Allegro
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro - (K.492), Overture
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis. -
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Arnold Schoenberg
Verklarte Nacht
Performer: Hartmut Rohde. Performer: Michael Sanderling. Ensemble: Leipzig Quartet. -
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Flute Concerto in A minor Wq.166 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
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