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This excerpt comes from very near the end of the great Swiss composer Frank Martin's setting for solo alto & orchestra (1942-3) of Rilke's famous prose poem narrative, and comprises #22 and the 1st 13 measures of #23. Interesting to hear it with the piano reduction.

In 1991, Brigitte Balleys made...

The soprano's name is Alys Roberts. There's a review of this production posted online.

Thank you so much for posting this! Thought I'd never get a chance to see it.

Thank you so much for posting this! I love this composer's music, there is such a life-affirming spirit. Congratulations to all the performers, too.

THANK YOU for posting this performance complete! Astonishing how different this piece sounds filtered through the sensibilities (and fingers) of various pianists. Took me a while to get into this work, but it was worth it. Great to have this version available to all.

I believe the clips are from the following:

Title sequence - A Room With a View, Sherlock, Different for Girls. Main sequence - A Room With a View (1985), Maurice (1987), The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990), The Madness of King George (1994), Different for Girls (1996), Room to Rent (2000), Take a Gir...

This film was directed by Petr Weigl (and released on VHS in 1992). It is performed by a cast of Czech actors, lip-synching to the voices of the singers listed above - and yes, that IS tenor Philip Langridge singing the Prologue. An audio-only version of this performance was released on Philips, ...

This clip from Different for Girls (1996) is a scene between Kim (Mackintosh) and her brother-in-law Neil (Neil Dudgeon).

Thanks for making the connection. BTW, Happy Families is an excellent episode of Inspector Morse, with a number of other fine actors as well, including Martin Clunes and Anna Massey.

Thanks for posting this, one of Stravinsky's most luminous & moving pieces. Glad you chose this live Proms performance, my personal favorite. Andrew Davis takes IS's slowish tempo markings & really makes them work. And Nicole Tibbels gives hands-down the most convincing performance of the spoken ...

Thanks for posting this wonderful performance (CD long o.u.p. & hard to find). It was recorded in 1963, on the composer's last visit to the U.S.; he died later the same year. It's of special interest both for Hindemith's conducting & because baritone George London had sung the premiere in 1946. T...

Not the overture but the end, Nos. 10 & 11 in the score (latter starts at 2:24). "Hérodiade" (1944) is based on a dramatic fragment by the poet Mallarmé, a classical dialogue between the title character and her Nurse. Hindemith actually “set” the text, syllable for syllable, in the instrumental l...

You're welcome. Hope you enjoy "Hérodiade," a fascinating, elusive piece. Took me a while to appreciate it, but now I'd put it high on my list of Hindemith favorites, especially as it shows a very different side of his musical personality. Studying the score and the Mallarmé text that the compose...