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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: Simone Young conducts Gurrelieder and Eleanor McEvoy hits the road
Description: Simone Young, who has just renewed her contract with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for another two years, talks about conducting Gurrelieder for the first time. Schoenberg's late-Romantic extravagance is one of the most sumptuous works of the twentieth century, and one of the biggest - such a concert hall rarity that Simone herself has never heard it live. We also talk about her forthcoming cycles of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung at the theatre Wagner himself built in Bayreuth, Germany.Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland’s foremost singer songwriters, and we pick up the conversation where we...