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Prom 5: Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid

Name: Prom 5: Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid
Start: 2024-07-22T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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At a concert in Vienna on 25 January 1905, two new, constrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits. But Alexander Zemlinsky wasn’t going to let Schoenberg (also his brother-in-law) steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve ...

Program

Alexander Zemlinsky - The Mermaid

Arnold Schoenberg - Pelleas and Melisande

Participants

Ryan Bancroft

Conductor

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Producer

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