Name: Afternoon Performance - John Wilson Conducts Korngold
Start: 2017-03-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-03-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

John Wilson

Orchestra

Singer

Benjamin Appl

Soloist

Voice

Baritone

Afternoon Performance - John Wilson Conducts Korngold

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Public

Concert

The Hebrides, op. 26

To Music

Am Tage Aller Seelen, D.343

Prometheus, D.674

Du bist die Ruh, D.776

Ganymed, D.544

Erlkönig, D.328

Symphonie Fis-Dur, Op. 40

Jnanakumar P

Approved

From his exile in California, Erich Wolfgang Korngold dedicated his only symphony to the President of the USA. But don’t be taken in: this former protégé of Mahler was Viennese to the tips of his bow tie. Epic in scale and surging with emotion, this last of the great late-Romantic symphonies is perfect for the BBC SSO’s Associate Guest Conductor John Wilson. The young German baritone Benjamin Appl, meanwhile, has already acquired a cult following: hear why as he, too, finds the dark heart beneath the Viennese charm in these rarely heard orchestral versions of Schubert’s songs. Korngold’s fellow child prodigy Mendelssohn begins the afternoon in an atmosphere of pure enchantment.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble