Four Last Songs
The BBC Philharmonic is joined by soprano Sarah Weneger for music by Wagner and Strauss. The orchestra gives the UK premiere of Edmund Finnis's The Landscape Wakes.
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by conductor Nicholas Carter for music exploring forbidden love and dramatic landscape.
The dramatic coastline of Cornwall provides compelling inspiration for Arnold Bax's overwhelming overture Tintagel. The impressive coastal castle provides a tangible link back to the legend of unrequited love and unresolved yearning which inspires Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde. The UK premiere of Edmund Finnis's The Landscape Wakes echoes the theme, and the concert ends with the nostalgic Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss in which he reflects on the beauties of nature and the joy of a long life well-lived.
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde; Prelude and Liebestod
Edmund Finnis: The Landscape Wakes (UK premiere)
8.10pm Interval
Bax: Tintagel
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Sarah Weneger (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Carter
Recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 14 March 2026 and presented by Mark Forrest.
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