East Meets West
Wednesday 4 July 2007 13:00-16:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Playlist:
Aldeburgh Festival
2/8. Reflecting this year's Venetian theme, the Belcea Quartet perform music by the Festival's inspiration, Benjamin Britten. Also included in the programme is Beethoven's middle period F major Quartet, written for Prince Razumovsky.
Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1
Britten: String Quartet No 3
2.15pm East Meets West
3/5. An opera by the Italian composer Franco Alfano based on a classic of the Sanskrit theatre, Kalidasa's Sakuntala. There's a Chinese focus, featuring the newly crowned BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Shen Yang, plus Bach performed in Japan and some 'Turkish' Mozart played on a piano complete with percussive effects!
Wolf: Der Feuerreiter (Mörike Lieder)
Shen Yang (bass-baritone)
Llyr Williams (piano)
Chen Yi: Chinese Fables
Caroline Stinson (cello)
George Gao (erhu)
Ben Reimer (percussion)
Bach: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV 1066
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
Franco Alfano: The Legend of Sakuntala (Act 1)
Sakuntala ...... Francesca Patane (soprano)
The King ...... David Rendall (tenor)
Priyamvada ...... Elena Cassian (mezzo-soprano)
Anusuya ...... Anna Rita Taliento (soprano)
Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor)
Mozart: Rondo alla turca (Sonata, K331)
Tom Beghin (fortepiano)
