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Wagner 200: 麻豆官网首页入口 SSO in Wagner's Tristan

Louise Fryer launches the 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra's epic three-day voyage through Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde. Plus Stravinsky and the 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers in Pizzetti.

Louise Fryer launches the 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra's epic three-day voyage through Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles is at the helm, with Nina Stemme as Isolde and Ian Storey as Tristan in Act 1 today. You can hear Act 2 tomorrow and Act 3 on Friday.

Plus a quick taster from the 麻豆官网首页入口 SSO's new Stravinsky CD, and a beautiful setting of Shelley by 20th century Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Stravinsky: Canon on a Russian Popular Tune
麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Ilan Volkov.

Ildebrando Pizzetti: A Lament
Tenor Edward Goater
麻豆官网首页入口 Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.

2.05pm
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, Act 1
Isolde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Tristan ..... Ian Storey (tenor)
Brang盲ne ..... Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (mezzo)
Kurwenal ..... Boaz Daniel (baritone)
Young Seaman ..... Nicky Spence (tenor)
Men of the RSNO Chorus,
麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Donald Runnicles.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Canon on a Russian popular tune

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    A Lament

  • Richard Wagner

    Act 1 of Tristan und Isolde

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 May 2013 14:00