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Kerem Hasan

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Francesca Chiejina

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BBC Philharmonic

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BBC Philharmonic | 4 November

Manchester

United Kingdom

The Bridgewater Hall

BBC Philharmonic | 4 November: Der fliegende Holländer Wagner,Richard (+3 More)

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The Flying Dutchman

Four Last Songs

Haffner Symphony

The Woman without a Shadow

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Opening with the overture to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, the work he claimed lifted him from a “mere concoctor of opera-texts” to a true poet, we then discover Strauss’s range in a curation of his orchestral songs with soprano Francesca Chiejina, from the exuberant motherly joy of ‘Muttertändelei’ (Mother-talk) to the nervous contemplation of ‘Ruhe, meine Seele!’ (Rest, my soul!). But even without words, we see Strauss’s impeccable knack for storytelling in the symphonic fantasy Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow), a fantastical tale of motherhood and humanity. Contrasting with the narrative-driven works of these two great dramatists is Mozart’s ferociously fun Thirty-Fifth Symphony.

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BBC Philharmonic | 4 November by Wagner, Richard, Strauss, Mozart, From (2023/2023), Conductor Kerem Hasan, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom

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