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Summer nights in Montpellier

Mezzo Karine Deshayes joins the Orchestre National de Montpellier and conductor Michael Schønwandt in music by Berlioz, Horneman and Schoenberg.

Fiona Talkington presents one of the highlights of the 2023 Summer festival season, in which mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes joins the Orchestre National de Montpellier and conductor by Michael Schønwandt in music by Berlioz, Horneman and Schoenberg.

Horneman: Aladdin, ouverture
Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été
Schoenberg: Pelléas and Mélisande

Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
Orchestre National de Montpellier
Michael Schønwandt , conductor

In this concert from the Montpelier Festival in the south of France, Karine Deshayes sings Berlioz’ songs of summer nights; wonders spring from Aladdin’s lamp in a work by the Danish composer Horneman, friend and contemporary of Grieg, and love’s intricacies and agonies are evoked by Schoenberg (who, at this early stage in his career, is still the heir of Brahms and Wagner) in his vast and voluptuous symphonic poem Pelléas and Mélisande.

Concert recorded on 21st July 2023 at the Montpellier Opera.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Mon 9 Oct 2023 19:30
Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Christian Frederik Emil Horneman

    Aladdin: Concert Overture

    Orchestra: Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée. Conductor: Michael Schønwandt.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Les Nuits d'été, op. 7

    Orchestra: Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée. Conductor: Michael Schønwandt. Singer: Karine Deshayes.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia in G major, BWV 572

    Performer: Jeanne Demessieux.
    • Festivo.
    • FECD 132.
    • 3.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pelleas and Melisande, Op. 5 (symphonic poem after Maeterlinck)

    Orchestra: Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée. Conductor: Michael Schønwandt.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • ERATO.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture Suite in E flat major for recorder and strings, TWV55:Es2

    Performer: Carin van Heerden. Orchestra: Orfeo Baroque Orchestra. Director: Carin van Heerden.
    • CPO.

Broadcast

  • Mon 9 Oct 2023 19:30
    Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 3