Performance on 3 - BBC SO - Salome

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at London's Barbican Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Lionel Bringuier performing Strauss's Dance of the Seven Veils from his one-act opera Salome. A setting of Oscar Wilde's lyric drama, which drew inspiration from French symbolism and the writings of Stephane Mallarme, Strauss's work dodged the censor in spite of its provocative Dance of the Seven Veils to make headway in the opera house long before Wilde's play was permitted on the stage. The 'Salome craze', which swept like wildfire across fin-de-siecle Europe, inspired everything from Isadora Duncan's erotic dancing to Florent Schmitt's ballet La tragedie de Salome, a precursor to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome) Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Ravel: La valse Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome Nelson Freire (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Lionel Bringuier (conductor) Followed by a focus on music written in Vienna around the year 1900: Berg: Seven Early Songs Melanie Diener (soprano) SWR Symphony Orchestra Michael Gielen (conductor). Recorded: 21st June 2008 at Rolf Bohme Hall, Concert House Freiburg Mahler: Symphony no. 5, 4th movement; Adagietto Recorded: 13th June 2007 at Risor Church Mahler: Ging heut morgens ubers Feld Mahler - piano GOLDEN LEGACY OF RECORDED MUS 101 1/1 Mahler: Symphony no. 4 in G major for soprano and orchestra, 4th movement Mahler - piano Yvonne Kenny - soprano GOLDEN LEGACY OF RECORDED MUS 101 1/7