20 February 2006
Monday 20 February 2006 17:00-19:30 (Radio 3)
Sean's first guests today are the Opera Director Francesca Zambello together with the musical director David Parry and members of the cast of Puccini's La Boheme. The opera is being performed in the round at the Royal Albert Hall from Thursday.
Members of the Jerusalem Quartet come in after 6 o'clock to talk about their cycle of Shostakovich quartets at London's Wigmore Hall, in this, the composer's centenary year.
The Guildhall School of Music are hosting a festival of the music of John McCabe this week. The composer comes into the studio to talk to Sean and perform one of his own works.
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
17:03
Hérold
Overture, Zampa
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
RCA GD 60310
TR.1
17:13
LIVE
PUCCINI
Che Gelida Manina
Victor Ryan-Robertson [Rodolfo]
David Parry, piano
17:24
LIVE
PUCCINI
Ah Mimi tu piu non torni
Mark Stone [Marcello]
Victor Ryan-Robertson [Rodolfo]
David Parry, piano
17:35
PUCCINI
Musetta's Aria: Quando m'en vo (Act II, La Boheme)
Marie McLaughlin [Musetta]
Philharmonia
David Parry, conductor
CHANDOS 3008
T.16
17:41
JEAN BARRIERE
Sonata No.10 in G
Thomas and Patrick Demenga, cellos
ECM 465 341 2
TR.3-5
17:51
BERLIOZ
Overture, Béatrice et Bénédict
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
LSO LIVE 0004
CD.1 T.1
18:03
TCHAIKOVSKY
Kuda...Kuda (Lensky's Aria)
Rolando Villazon, tenor (Lensky)
Bavarian Radio Orchestra
Michel Plasson, conductor
VIRGIN VC5 45560 2
T.8
18:11
SHOSTAKOVICH
Quartet no.4 (1st mvt.allegretto)
Jerusalem String Quartet
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901865
T.5
18:23
SHOSTAKOVICH
Quartet No.9 op.117
Jerusalem String Quartet
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901865
T.13
18:34
SAINT-SAENS
Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs, op.79
William Bennett, flute
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
James Campbell, clarinet
Julius Drake, piano
CALA CACD 1017A
CD.2 TR.10
18:47
LIVE
JOHN MCCABE
Snowfall in Winter
John McCabe, piano
18:58
JOHN MCCABE
Chagall Windows: 'Gad'
Hallé Orchestra
James Loughran, conductor
EMI CDM7631762 2
Tr. 8
19:04
HAYDN
Sonata in G minor
John McCabe, piano
DECCA 443785 2
CD.4 T.10-11
19:20
HANDEL
Coronation Anthem:
Let thy hand be strengthened
The Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks, director
DECCA 452 949 2 CD.2
T.18-20
