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