Petroc Trelawny speaks to soprano Amanda Roocroft, ahead of a performance of "The Apostles" at the Proms. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain perform live in the studio.
Playlist
5.02
LIVE MUSIC
Isaac Hayes
Theme Tune from Shaft
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
5.06
MacCunn
Land of the Mountain and the Flood
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 66815
Tr. 1
5.16
LIVE MUSIC
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Sneako
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
5.27
LIVE MUSIC
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Collage (ending with Ying Tong Song.)
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
5.31
Corelli
Violin Sonata no.7 in D minor
Francois Fernandez (baroque violin)
Glen Wilson (harpsichord)
NAXOS 8.557799
Tr. 1-4
5.41
Offenbach
Ah! Que j'aime les militaries
(La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein)
Felicity Lott
Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
Marc Minkowski
VIRGIN CLASSICS 0946 3857552 8
CD2 Tr. 10
5.46
Smetana
Vltava
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
DG 415851-2
Tr. 1
6.03
Beethoven
Coriolan Overture
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)
PHILIPS 426630-2
Tr. 1
6.12
Grieg
Intermezzo in A minor
Truls Mork (cello)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
VIRGIN VC5 450342
Tr. 4
6.15
Handel
Let the Bright Seraphim (Samson)
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
The London Philharmonic
Franz Welser-Most (conductor)
EMI CDC5 55092
Tr. 1
6.27
Elgar
The Kingdom - extract from The Sun Goeth Down (part 4)
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
6.36
Mozart
Come scoglio (Cosi Fan Tutte)
Amanda Roocroft (Fiordiligi)
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ARCHIV 4499382
Tr. 13
6.42
Rachmaninov
Scherzo for Orchestra
USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
OLYMPIA OCD 249
Tr. 8
6.48
Vaughan Williams orch Jacob
English Folk Song Suite
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
EMI CDEMX 2179
Tr. 9-11
