Eight years before he began his First Symphony in 1841, Schumann began an earlier one.
Thomas Dausgaard – who has recorded a complete Schumann cycle with his agile Swedish Chamber Orchestra – opens with its sprightly first movement and ends our Schumann bicentenary symphony cycle with the biggest and most stirring of the set.
Swedish soprano Nina Stemme sings Berlioz's tender songs of love sought, found and lost, and her compatriot Albert Schnelzer pays tribute both to Haydn's playful character and to film director Tim Burton, born in the Californian city of Burbank.
Thomas Dausgaard – who has recorded a complete Schumann cycle with his agile Swedish Chamber Orchestra – opens with its sprightly first movement and ends our Schumann bicentenary symphony cycle with the biggest and most stirring of the set.
Swedish soprano Nina Stemme sings Berlioz's tender songs of love sought, found and lost, and her compatriot Albert Schnelzer pays tribute both to Haydn's playful character and to film director Tim Burton, born in the Californian city of Burbank.
There is Nina Stemme and Antonio Pappano. She sings songs of Jean Sibelius:
Also: 1 September 10.00 UTC+0 on web radio ABC Classics FM: BBC Proms 51 (repeating from Royal Albert Hall, London, 23. Aug. 2010)
* Nina Stemme, soprano
* Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Örebro
* Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Details:
* Schumann Symphony in G minor, 'Zwickau' (incomplete) (11 mins)
* Berlioz Les nuits d'été (30 mins)
* Albert Schnelzer A Freak in Burbank (UK premiere) (9 mins)
* Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C major (38 mins)
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