Live from the Proms

BBC Proms · Season 41 · Episode 4

Schoenberg's 'Gurrelieder' conducted by Pierre Boulez

Gurra is the name of a Danish castle. Schoenberg, later to become the self-confessed 'bogeyman of 20th-century music' composed his massive, romantic work Songs of Gurra on near operatic scale - a kind of post-Wagnerian Tristan and Isolde.

Jessye Norman (soprano) Elizabeth Lawrence (mezzo) Kenneth Riegel (tenor) Walter Raffeiner (tenor) John Brocheler (bass) Gerd Nienstadt (baritone)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus

Brighton Festival Chorus

Royal Choral Society

Philharmonia Chorus (men's voices)

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, leader GEOFFREY SILVER

Introduced by Michael Berkeley