Sean's guests include the violinist Madeleine Mitchell who discusses the "Red Violin Festival" taking place in Cardiff in October with The Philharmonia Violin Quintet performing live; plus curators Alison Smith & Jason Rosenfeld guide Sean around the exhibition of paintings by John Everett Millais on show at Tate Britain in London.
Playlist
17:03
BACH
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 174 (BWV.174)
The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Archiv 439 780-2
CD 1 Tr. 14
17:09
LIVE
MOZART
Serenade from Don Giovanni
Madeleine Mitchell (Violin)
The Philharmonia Violin Quintet
Julian Milone (Violin)
Adrian Varela (Violin)
Deborah Preece (Violin)
Gideon Robinson (Violin)
Neil Tarlton (Bass)
17:12
SCHUBERT
On the River (D.943)
Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Marie Luise Neunecker (horn)
Rudolf Jansen (piano)
Philips 438 932-2
Tr. 19
17:20
LIVE
PIAZZOLLA
Il Retrato di Alfredo Gobbi [A portrait of Alfredo Gobbi]
The Philharmonia Violin Quintet
Julian Milone (Violin)
Adrian Varela (Violin)
Deborah Preece (Violin)
Gideon Robinson (Violin)
Neil Tarlton (Bass)
17:29
Lili BOULANGER
Nocturne
Madeleine Mitchel (violin)
Andrew Ball (piano)
Divine Art dda25063
Tr. 15
17:37
LIVE
GERSHWIN
It ain't necessarily so
The Philharmonia Violin Quintet
Julian Milone (Violin)
Adrian Varela (Violin)
Deborah Preece (Violin)
Gideon Robinson (Violin)
Neil Tarlton (Bass)
17:41
LIVE
SHOSTAKOVICH
Galop
The Philharmonia Violin Quintet
Julian Milone (Violin)
Adrian Varela (Violin)
Deborah Preece (Violin)
Gideon Robinson (Violin)
Neil Tarlton (Bass)
17:45
MENDELSSOHN
Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Op.21)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis
Orfeo C089841A
Tr. 1
17:58
BYRD
Consort Anthems -2nd Service -Nunc Dimittis
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Fretwork
Bill Ives
Harmonia Mundi HMU907440
Tr. 7
18:03
Peter USTINOV
Mock Mozart
Peter Ustinov
EMI 07243 532631 2
CD 2 Tr. 3
17:07
VIVALDI
Bassoon Concerto in F major(RV.491)
Klaus Tunemann (bassoon)
I Musici
PHILIPS 446 066 2
Trs. 1 - 3
18:15
BERLIOZ
La Mort d'Ophelie [1842]
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Cord Garben (piano)
DG 435 860-2
CD 2 Tr. 8
18:20
ELGAR
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major (Op.63)
1st mvt: Allegro vivace e nobilmente [excerpt]
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis
Warner 0927-49586-2
Tr. 2
18:28
MEYERBEER
Les Huguenots
Act V: "Ainsi je te verrai perir?"
Francoise Pollet [Valentine]
Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon Philharmonic Orchestra/Cyril Diedrich
Erato 2292-45027-2
CD 4 Tr. 13
18:33
DONIZETTI
La Fille du regiment
Act 1: Chacun le sait [Song of the Regiment]
Joan Sutherland [Marie]
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Richard Bonynge
Decca 414 520-2
Tr. 3
18:36
HANDEL
Jephtha
Act 2: "Horror! Confusion!... Open thy marble jaws, O tomb."
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 422 351-2
CD 2 Tr. 9
18:42
BELLINI
La Sonnambula
Act II: 'Ah! non credea mirarti'
Joan Sutherland (Amina)
Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra/Richard Bonynge
Decca 448 966-2
CD 2 Tr. 14
18:52
ELGAR
The Dream of Gerontius (Op. 38)
Part Two: But Hark! a grand mysterious harmony. Praise to the Holiest
Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
Arthur Davies (tenor)
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN8641/2
CD 1 Trs. 23 - 24
