Live at the 麻豆社 Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales perform Zemlinsky鈥檚 The Mermaid and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande.
Live at the 麻豆社 Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales perform Zemlinsky鈥檚 The Mermaid and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande.
Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
7.30pm
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Mellisande, Op 5
c.8.20pm
INTERVAL: Penny is joined in the Radio 3 box by Professor Sarah Peverley from the University of Liverpool, an expert on the Middle Ages and mythical creatures who is writing a book The Mermaid鈥檚 Tale: A Cultural History of Mermaids. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and having been chosen as a 麻豆社/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she has contributed to Free Thinking and Radio 3鈥檚 The Essay.
c.8.40pm
Zemlinsky: The Mermaid
麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
At a concert in Vienna on 25 January 1905, two new, contrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck鈥檚 drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits. But Alexander Zemlinsky wasn鈥檛 going to let Schoenberg (also his brother-in-law) steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve in his orchestral response to the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. Ryan Bancroft marshals his 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales in two monumental tearjerkers that share far more than a birthday.
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