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Donald Macleod looks at Chaminade and Holmes's contrasting achievement in the fields of opera and ballet. While Holmes wrote four operas, Chaminade had one successful ballet.

In today's programme Donald Macleod is joined once again by Marcia Citron and Karen Henson. They consider the events and music which inspired Holmès to write four operas, culminating in the mounting of her opera La Montagne Noire at the Paris Opéra. In contrast, after writing a successful ballet early in her career and despite two attempts at writing an opera, Chaminade never completed a work in either genre thereafter.

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Wed 16 Oct 201318:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Augusta Holmes

    Ouverture pour une comedie

    Orchestra: Rheinland-Pfatz Philharmonic.
    • Marco Polo 8.223449.
    • 3.

  • Augusta Holmes

    Andromède

    Orchestra: Rheinland-Pfatz Philharmonic. Conductor: Samuel Friedmann.
    • Marco Polo 8.223449 S.
    • 1.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Nice-la-Belle

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG 471 331-2.
    • 13.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Ma premiere lettre

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG 71 332 -2.
    • 6.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Sombrero

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG 471 331-2.
    • 3.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Automne - No 2 of Etudes de Concert, Op 35

    • EMI CDZ 7625252.
    • 13.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Callirhoe

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Helios: CDH55197.
    • 3.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    l'Ete

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG 471 331-2.
    • 25.

Broadcasts

  • Wed 18 Jun 200812:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Wed 18 Jun 200820:45
    BBC Radio 3
  • Wed 16 Oct 201312:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Wed 16 Oct 201318:30
    BBC Radio 3

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