25/08/2009 Nicholas McGegan and Hopkinson Smith

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.

Ahead of their Edinburgh Festival performances Petroc talks to Nicholas McGegan, who conducts Handel's Acis and Galatea and Admeto Rei Di Tessaglia, and Hopkinson Smith, giving a recital at the Queen's Hall.

17.02
SMETANA
Polka: To Our Lasses (Nasim devam)
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Vaclav Smetacek (conductor)
SUPRAPHON 10 1429
Track 1
3’56

17.07
FRANCISCO GUERAU
Canarios
Hopkinson Smith, baroque guitar
NAÏVE E8908
Track 18
2’24

17.10
HANDEL
Overture; O the pleasure of the plains! (Acis & Galatea)
NDR Choir
Gottingen Festival Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (director)
CARUS 83.420
Tracks 1-2
8’54

17.26
HANDEL
Cangio d’aspetto (Admeto, Act 1 Sc.6)
René Jacobs, counter-tenor (Admeto)
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis (conductor)
VIRGIN VMT561369 2
CD1 Track 16
5’07

17.38
HANDEL
Hallelujah chorus (Messiah)
U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, director
Harmonia Mundi 907050.52
CD 2 Track 12
3’19

17.42
MICHAEL NYMAN
Out of the Ruins
The Holy Echmiadzin Chorus
Khoren Meykhanejian, conductor
SILVA SCREEN FILMCD 063
Track 1
11’30

17.57
KAPSPERGER
Gagliarda
Hopkinson Smith (lute)
Naïve E8908
Track 14
1’58

18.03
ROSSINI
The Thieving Magpie (Overture)
London Classical Players
Roger Norrington (conductor)
VIRGIN 7243 5 61900 2 3
Track 5
9’37

18.14
BACH
Prelude, Partita no.3 in E major, BWV.1006
Hopkinson Smith, 13 course (24 string) lute
NAÏVE E8908
Track 21
4’47

18.25
BERNARD JOACHIM HAGEN
Largo (Lute Concerto in A)
Hopkinson Smith (lute)
Chiara Banchini, David Plantier (violins)
Daivd Courviosier (viola)
Roel Dieltens (cello)
NAÏVE E8908
Track 12
4’27

18.34
GASPAR SANZ
Marizapalo; La Tarantela
Hopkinson Smith (baroque guitar)
NAÏVE E8908
Tracks 8-9
6’22

18.43
WALTON arr Mathieson
Suite from Henry V
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn (conductor)
CARL 30367 01862
Tracks 10-14
15’40