Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

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Programme

Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)	Faust Overture
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)	Wesendonck-Lieder
Webern, Anton (1883-1945)	Passacaglia, Op.1
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)	Tristan and Isolde: Prelude to Act 1
Berg, Alban (1885-1935)	Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)	Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op.24

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner	Conductor
Christine Brewer	Soprano

Celebrated American soprano Christine Brewer is a very special guest for this sumptuous evening of Wagner, Strauss and composers of the Second Viennese school, conducted by the Edward Gardner of English National Opera. Tristan and Isolde and the Wesendonck- Lieder belong to the same turbulent period of Wagner’s life, when he was amorously involved with Mathilde Wesendonck. His settings of her poetry share the same heady chromaticism and ecstatic heights as Tristan, and find an echo in Strauss’s lavish tone poem Death and Transfiguration. Webern’s masterly Passacaglia anticipates the exquisitely-heard, Expressionist world of Berg’s Seven Early Songs.

Tickets £10 - 32.

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Christine Brewer at the Barbican

Penny Homer, 20th December

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Christine Brewer close Wagner bicentenary celebrations at the Barbican by showing his influence on Strauss, Webern and Berg on December 20th.

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