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Prom 49: Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2023

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Schumann's Paradise and the Peri, with soloists including Lucy Crowe and Magdalena Kožená.

Live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms: Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Schumann's 'Paradise and the Peri’, with soloists including Lucy Crowe and Magdalena Kožená.

Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri

Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Staples (tenor)
Linard Vrielink (tenor)
Florian Boesch (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sir Simon Rattle

c. 2020 Interval
Tom Service is joined by musicologist and Oxford University Professor Laura Tunbridge, to talk about Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri.

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus present the first ever complete performance at the Proms of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (‘Paradise and the Peri’). Part oratorio and part opera, a choral and orchestral cycle that seems to unfold in continuous song, the work tells the story of a Peri – child of a fallen angel and a mortal – who makes a sequence of offerings to the guardians of Paradise in an attempt to gain entry. Lucy Crowe leads an exciting international cast.

02:52 Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Part I
27:19 Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Part II
54:34 Interval: Tom Service is joined by musicologist Laura Tunbridge
01:20:31 Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Part III

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Tue 22 Aug 2023 19:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Das Paradies Und Die Peri Op.50

    Performer: Lucy Crowe. Performer: Jeanine De Bique. Performer: Magdalena Kožená. Performer: Andrew Staples. Performer: Linard Vrielink. Performer: Florian Boesch. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Choir: London Symphony Chorus.

  • Robert Schumann

    Das Paradies Und Die Peri Op.50

    Performer: Lucy Crowe. Performer: Jeanine De Bique. Performer: Magdalena Kožená. Performer: Andrew Staples. Performer: Linard Vrielink. Performer: Florian Boesch. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Choir: London Symphony Chorus.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Recorder Concerto No 7 in D minor after Corelli

    Composer: Francesco Geminiani. Performer: Maurice Steger. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Laurence Cummings.
    • Mr. Corelli In London.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 17-20.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite No 7 in G Minor, HWV 432 (mvts 1-4, 6)

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • Baroque Harpsichord (The Art Of The).
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 22 Aug 2023 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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