Arnold Schoenberg Gurrelieder

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AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG GURRELIEDER

EVA-MARIA WESTBROEK · SIMON O’NEILL KAREN CARGILL · PETER HOARE CHRISTOPHER PURVES ·THOMAS QUASTHOFF LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIR SIMON RATTLE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Sir Simon Rattle starts his tenure as the London Symphony Gurrelieder Orchestra’s new Music Director with a concert at the prestigious BBC Proms – 40 years after his first appearance with the LSO, in October 1977 at the age of 22. The Royal Albert Hall’s cavernous space Tove Eva-Maria Westbroek provides the perfect surroundings for this supersize scale performance Waldemar Simon O’Neill of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder. The force of over five hundred Wood-Dove Karen Cargill voices from the CBSO Chorus, the London Symphony Chorus and Klaus the Fool Peter Hoare Orfeó Català meet the LSO and a superb line-up of soloists, led by Peasant Christopher Purves Rattle. The conductor is reunited with his long-term collaborator Speaker Thomas Quasthoff Chorus Master Simon Halsey, putting on “a brilliantly blazing show” (The Daily Telegraph). Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Among the outstanding vocal soloists is Eva-Maria Westbroek whose Choruses CBSO Chorus Tove is “warm and deeply, seductively expressive” (The Guardian). London Symphony Chorus Thomas Quasthoff “almost inevitably steals the show as the magnetic Orfeó Català Speaker” (The Independent). Simon O’Neill (Waldemar) boasts Chorus Master Simon Halsey “serious stamina and an unerring sense of musical line” (The Guardian). Conductor Sir Simon Rattle The enchanting song of the Wood-Dove delivered by Karen Cargill is “one of the highlights of the evening” (Evening Standard). Video Director John Williams Schoenberg’s titanic Gurre-Lieder is one of the most opulent musical giants of the 20th century – a late romantic cantata of Wagnerian ambition and proportions. It sweeps the audience away in a frenzy Length: approx. 110' of powerful sounds. The Gurre-Lieder tell the tale of a love that even Shot in HDTV 1080/50i death cannot vanquish – the love of King Waldemar for Tove – and Cat. no. A 020 50115 speaks of a rage against the heavens, and ultimately of the consolation in a closing musical sunrise of unparalleled beauty. Rattle’s BBC Proms performance is “an intoxicating embrace of the gigantic ebb and flow A co-production of of Schoenberg’s score … an ecstatic celebration!” (The Guardian). BBC and UNITEL

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