Episodes
Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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Prom 64 - Part 1 | 20080902 | From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Handley. The celebrated Berlin Philharmonic, in the first of two Proms with principal conductor Simon Rattle, perform a programme of works based on the tragic story of the forbidden love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. The concert begins with Wagner's own concert version of the overture to his great opera of love and death combined with the final aria of his heroine. Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Tristan Murail (ondes martenot) Simon Rattle (conductor) Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod. The Berlin Philharmonic in Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. |
Prom 64 - Part 2 | 20080902 | From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presente by Martin Handley. The Berlin Philharmonic's Prom featuring works based on the tragic story of the Cornish knight Tristan and Isolde the Irish princess concludes with Simon Rattle conducting Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony. Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Tristan Murail (ondes martenot) Berliner Philharmoniker Simon Rattle (conductor) Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. The Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle perform Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony. |