Performance on 3 - BBC SSO/Donald Runnicles

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. From the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, in a programme with renowned Wagnerian and their Chief Conductor - Donald Runnicles. It starts with music from the opera Tannhauser: its overture and the sensual Venusberg music. Then, a selection of lyrical songs by Richard Strauss with leading American soprano Christine Brewer. And finally, 'the apotheosis of the dance', Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, as Wagner described the rhythmic vitality of this piece. Wagner - Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser Richard Strauss - Songs Allerseelen Wiegenlied Cacilie Ruhe, meine Seele Befreit Zueignung Encore: Morgen Beethoven - Symphony No 7 in A major, Op. 92 Christine Brewer, soprano BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles, conductor Followed by a focus this week on great Chopin pianists, old and new. 3 Mazurkas, Op. 59 Martha Argerich, piano EMI – 556805-2 Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1 Maria Joao Pires, piano DG – 447 096-2 Waltz in A-flat major; Etude in G-sharp minor, Op. 25 No. 6; Three Ecossaises, Op. post. 72 No. 3 Mikhail Pletnev, piano DG – 453 456-2