
Sir Simon Rattle: Das Paradies und die Peri
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The Concert
Robert Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Lucy Crowe soprano
Jeanine De Bique soprano
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
Andrew Staples tenor
Linard Vrielink tenor
Florian Boesch baritone
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Sung in German, with English surtitles
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Available to listen on BBC Sounds until 8 October 2023
Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus present the first ever complete performance at the Proms of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri).
Part oratorio and part opera, a choral and orchestral cycle that seems to unfold in continuous song, the work tells the story of a Peri – child of a fallen angel and a mortal – who makes a sequence of offerings to the guardians of Paradise in an attempt to gain entry. Lucy Crowe leads an exciting international cast.