Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world. His guests this evening include Conductor Rene Jacobs, ahead of his direction of the Freiburger Barockorchester for Handel's Giulio Cesare at London's Barbican; also appearing on tonight's programme is ENO's Artistic Director John Berry to discuss ENO's 2007/08 season announced today plus Graham Sheffield from the Royal Philharmonic Society about their Music Awards announced earlier today.
Playlist
17:03
BEETHOVEN
6 Variations on "Nel cor piu non mi sento" (Paisiello)
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Decca 436 834 2
Track 6
17:08
HOLST
Fugal Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Strings
English Sinfoni/Howard Griffiths
Naxos 8.570339
Tracks 10-12
17:17
HANDEL
Overture to Julius Caesar
Concerto Koln/Rene Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi 901385 87
Disc 1 Track 1
17:27
HANDEL
Julius Caesar "Va tacito e nascosto"
Marijana Mijanovic (Caesar)/Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
Archiv 474 210-2
Disc 1 Track 25
17:41
MOZART
Last mvt of Symphony No 38 in D "Prague"
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Rene Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901958
Track 3
17:49
WAXMAN
Tristan and Isolde Fantasia
Chloe Hanslip (violin)/Charles Owen (piano)/RPO/Leonard Slatkin
Naxos 8.559302
Track 3
18:03
VERDI
Aida Act 2 (in English) end of Triumphal Scene
Various Soloists/Geoffrey Mitchell Choir/Philharmonia/David Parry
Chandos CHAN3074
Disc 1 Track 33
18:12
BIZET
Carmen Act 2 (in English) "That flower you threw me I treasured"
Julian Gavin (Don Jose)/Philharmonia/David Parry
Chandos CHAN 3091
Disc 2 Track 4
18:21
STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (in English) Baron Och's Monologue to end of Act 2
John Tomlinson (Baron Ochs)/Elizabeth Vaughan (Annina)/LPO/David Parry
Chandos CHAN 3022
Tracks 11 - 12
18:36
MOON DOG (arr. Joanna MacGregor)/Bumbo
Andy Sheppard (sax)/various soloists/Britten Sinfonia/Joanna MacGregor (conductor)
Sound Circus SC010
Track 2
18:45
MOZART
"Deh vieni" from Marriage of Figaro
Miah Persson (Sussana)/Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Sebastian Weigle
BIS SACD 1529
Track 6
18:50
LISTZ
Ricordanza (Etudes d'execution transcendante)
Earl Wild (piano)
EMI 5 86522 2
Disc 1 Track 8