LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW week 9  PENTHESILEA (in this programme the subiect of a symphonic poem by Hugo Wolf) was a Queen of the Amazones who led her troops to the Trojan War in support of King Priamos. Some say she came as a mercenary, others that she was seeking redemption for the accidental killing of her sister. In the battles which ensued, Penthesilea slew the Greek hero Makhaon, but was herself felled by Achilles. The hero upon lifting her helm fell in love with her, and returned her corpse to the Trojans unharmed for proper burial. When Thersites mocked him, and some say gouged out Penthesilea's eye with a spear, Achilles killed him.
photo: Penthesilia, Amazonian Queen, daughter of Ares and Otrera in Greek mythology.
(sculpture by French artist Antoine Bouraine)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Lothar Zagrosek, conductor - Detlef Roth, baritone

 
Gustav Mahler / Colin Matthews: ‘Nicht zu schnell’, first mvt. of the unfinished Piano quartet
Hugo Wolf: Penthesilea
Geert van Keulen: Fünf tragische Lieder auf Gedichte von Anna Enquist
Richard Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20

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