Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world. His guests this evening are mezzo-soprano Yvonne Naef and bass-baritone Jose Van Dam, talking about tomorrow evening's BBC Prom with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; director Robert Carsen and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham discuss the new production of Gluck's opera 'Iphigenie en Tauride' which opens at the Royal Opera House next Monday; and pianist John Lenehan plays music by Philip Glass and Michael Nyman live in the studio.
Playlist
17:02
BERLIOZ
La Damnation de Faust (Op.24)
Hungarian March
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Georg Solti
Decca 414 680-2 CD 1 track 4
17:07
ELLINGTON
Solitude
Alan Feinberg (piano)
Argo 444 457-2 track 3
17:12
BERLIOZ
La Damnation de Faust (Op.24)
Part II: Song of the flea & Air "Voici des roses"
Jose van Dam (bass baritone) - Mephistopheles
Thomas Moser (tenor) - Faust
Lyon Opera Chorus & Opera Orchestra/Kent Nagano
Erato 0630-10692-2 CD 1 track 10 & 11
17:24
BERLIOZ
La Belle voyageuse (Irlande Op.2, No. 4)
Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano)
Capella Istropolitana/David Heer
Claves CD 50-2309 track 3
17:34
BERLIOZ
La Damnation de Faust (Op.24)
Part IV: Ride to the Abyss and Pandemoium
Jose van Dam (bass baritone) - Mephistopheles
Kenneth Riegel (tenor) - Faust
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Georg Solti
17:44
CHOPIN
Introduction and Polonaise in C major (Op.3)
Truls Mork (cello)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Virgin Classics 3 85784 2 track 10
17:53
HANDEL
Alcina
Act 3 sc.3: Sta nell' Ircana
Susan Graham Ruggiero (mezzo-soprano)
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
Erato 8573-80233-2 CD 3, track 9
18:00 News
18:03
BOCCHERINI/BERIO
Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid" sovraposte e transcritte per orchestra
Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly
Decca 476 2830 track 3
18:10
RABANALES
Fandangos
Paco Pena (guitar) & Angel Munoz (cajon)
Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0016 track 9
18:19
GLUCK
Iphigenie in Tauride
Act 1: "Grands Dieux! Soyez-nous secourables"
Susan Graham (mezzo soprano) - Iphigenie
Vienna State Opera Chorus; Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/Ivor Bolton
Orfeo C 563 0121 CD 1, track 1
18:32
GLUCK
Iphigenie in Tauride
Act 2: "Le calme rentre dans mon coeur. Vengeons et la nature."
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) - Oreste
Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre
Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Archiv 471 133-2 CD 1, tracks 19 & 20
18:43
GLUCK
Iphigenie in Tauride
Act 4: "Non: cet affreux devoir - Je t'implore et je tremble" (recit & aria)
Susan Graham (mezzo soprano) - Iphigenie
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/Ivor Bolton
Orfeo C 563 0121 CD 2, track 12
18:48
GRAINGER
A Lincolnshire Posy
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra/Timothy Reynish
CHANDOS CHAN 9549 tracks 12-17
19:04
LIVE MUSIC
PHILIP GLASS
"Trilogy Sonata": Dance (from Akhnaten Scene)
John Lenehan (piano)
19:14
LIVE MUSIC
MICHAEL NYMAN
Big my secret (from the Piano)
John Lenehan (piano)
19:18
MONTEVERDI
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Cantus Colln
Concerto Palatino/Konrad Junghanel
Harmonia Mundi HMC901718/20 CD 3 track 1
