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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Soprano

Anja Kampe

Tove

Mezzo-soprano

Karen Cargill

Waldtaube

Tenor

Simon O'Neill

Waldemar

Conductor

Donald Runnicles

Orchestra

Others

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

Singer

Anthony Dean Griffey

Klaus-Narr

Bass-baritone

Iain Paterson

Peasant

Spoken

Thomas Quasthoff

Narrator

Edinburgh International Festival: Gurrelieder

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Usher Hall

Edinburgh International Festival: Gurrelieder: Gurre-Lieder Schoenberg, Arnold

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Gurre-Lieder

Jnanakumar P

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Powerhouse conductor Donald Runnicles brings the 2016 Usher Hall concerts to a dazzling conclusion with Schoenberg’s epic mega-cantata Gurrelieder, marking his very last concert as Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

One of the grandest, most opulent musical statements ever made, the voluptuous but rarely performed Gurrelieder uses a gargantuan orchestra and chorus to tell of the love between King Waldemar and the young Tove, later murdered by Waldemar’s jealous Queen. It blends myth and magic, and influences from Wagner and Mahler in a lush, late-Romantic score of kaleidoscopic colour and immense power.

English

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Cast

Ensemble