3 December 2004
Friday 3 December 2004 17:00-19:30 (Radio 3)
Sean Rafferty talks to James Holmes and Loren Geeting about Opera North’s new production of Kurt Weill’s ‘One Touch Of Venus’; Mark Swartzentruber plays live in the studio; and Dr Stephen Roe brings in the autograph manuscript of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London next week.
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
17:03
Debussy
Valse romantique
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pf)
Decca 460 247-2,
CD.1, t.15
17’07
Weill
Foolish Heart (One Touch of Venus)
Lotte Lenya (“Venus”); orchestra, Maurice Levine
Sony MHK 60647
t.4
17’15
Weill
The Trouble with women (One Touch of Venus)
Kenny Baker; orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Pearl CDS 9189
CD.2, tr.14
17’22
Weill
Westwind (One Touch of Venus)
Thomas Hampson (“Whitelaw Savory”);
London Sinfonietta & Chorus, John McGlinn
EMI 5 55563 2
t.1
17’27
Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
RCA 09026 63313 2
t.2
17’38
Boismortier
Grand Motet: Exaudiat te Dominus“
Soloists; Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Accord 476 2509
t.1-7
19.56
Charles Alkan
Esquisses, Op 63: Les cloches; les Enharmoniques
Ronald Smith (piano)
EMI 5 85484-2
tks 9&10
18’04
Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Thomas Quasthoff; Vienna PO, Pierre Boulez
DG 477 5329
tks 1-4
18.22
Haydn
Sonata in E flat, Hov.16.52: iii) Finale - Presto
Mark Swartzentruber (pf)
Solo SLR4
t.3
18’33
Live
Debussy
Estampes: i) Pagodes
Mark Swartzentruber (pf)
18’43
Live
Haydn Sonata in G, Hob.16.40
Mark Swartzentruber (pf)
18’53
Mondonville
Sonate en symphonie, Op.3 no.2
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Archiv 457 600-2
tks.4-6
19’01
Rachmaninov
Symphony no.2: iii) Adagio (extract)
St Petersburg PO, Mariss Jansons
EMI 5 85075 2
t.4
19’14
Rachmaninov
Symphony no.2: ii) Allegro molto
St Petersburg PO, Mariss Jansons
EMI 5 85075 2
t.3
19’24
Wolf
Die Bekehrte
Frühling uber jah
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Richard Goode (piano)
Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79317-2 Tracks 16&17
