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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 41 - Schoenberg, 'Gurrelieder'
Performance Date12 August 2012
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersSimon O'Neill - Waldemar,
Angela Denoke - Tove,
Katarina Karneus - Wood-Dove,
Neal Davies - Peasant,
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts - Klaus the Fool,
Wolfgang Schone - Speaker
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers,
BBC Symphony Chorus,
Crouch End Festival Chorus,
New London Chamber Choir
ConductorsJukka-Pekka Saraste
Set List'Gurrelieder', Schoenberg
Performance NotesFollowing Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony on the opening night of the London Olympics (Prom 18), the closing night sees another choral blockbuster. Schoenberg’s medieval love-tragedy is an early masterpiece in which his late-Romantic voluptuousness attains a radiant C major sunrise apotheosis.

Augmenting substantial BBC forces, Jukka-Pekka Saraste welcomes two guest choirs. An impressive international solo line-up is headed by New Zealand tenor Simon O’Neill as Waldemar, the cursed king. German soprano Angela Denoke makes her Proms debut as Tove and Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus returns as the voice of the Wood-Dove.

There was no interval.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Jiri Belohlavek, the advertised conductor was unable to attend and Jukka-Pekka Saraste replaced him.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/99),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24),
Digital Photographs
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/99BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 41 - Schoenberg, 'Gurrelieder'12 August 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/1032Crouch End Festival Chorus; 1984-; English choir
DS/UK/1033New London Chamber Choir; 1981-; English choir
DS/UK/1034Saraste; Jukka-Pekka (1956-); Finnish conductor, violinist
DS/UK/1035O'Neill; Simon (1971-); New Zealand tenor
DS/UK/1036Denoke; Angela (1961-); German soprano
DS/UK/1038Karneus; Katarina (1965-); Swedish mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/1039Davies; Neal (fl 1990s); Welsh operatic bass-baritone
DS/UK/1040Roberts; Jeffrey Lloyd- (fl 1997-); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/1041Schone; Wolfgang (1940-); German bass-baritone
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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