20 June 2008
Friday 20 June 2008 17:00-19:00 (Radio 3)
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the music world. Cellist Natalie Clein plays extracts from a new concerto composed for her by Matthew King, and Sean talks to director Robert Carsen, tenor Toby Spence and actor Alex Jennings about Bernstein's Candide which opens at English National Opera next week.
Playlist
17:02
Bernstein
Candide: overture
London Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 4297342
CD 1 Track 1
4'27
17:07
LIVE
Piazzolla
Milonga in D
Natalie Clein (cello)
Matthew King (piano)
3'41
17:14
LIVE
Matthew King
Odyssean Variations (excerpts)
Natalie Clein (cello)
Matthew King (piano)
4'18
17:27
Elgar
Cello Concerto
Natalie Clein (cello)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Vernon Handley (conductor)
EMI 5014092
Track 4
11'31
17:40
Johnson
Have you seen the bright lily grow?
Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
Julian Behr (lute)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901993
Track 9
2'46
17:43
Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms: Alleluia. Laudate dominum
Berlin Radio Chorus
Berlin Philharmonic
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 2076302
Track 6
12'28
17:57
Stephen Hough
Three Mozart Transformations (after Poulenc): No.3
Stephen Hough (piano)
HYPERION HDA67598
Track 10
2'00
18:03
Nielsen
Helios overture
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
CBS MK42093
Track 5
9'59
18:14
Chopin
Mazurka in C, Op.24 No.2
Emanuel Ax (piano)
RCA 82876725542
CD 1 Track 7
1'56
18:18
Bernstein
The best of all possible worlds (Candide, Act 1)
Adolph Green (Pangloss)
Jerry Hadley (Candide)
June Anderson (Cunegonde)
Maximilian (Kurt Ollmann)
Pacquette (Della Jones)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 4297342
CD 1 Track 4
2'42
18:26
Bernstein
You were dead, you know (Candide, Act 1)
Jerry Hadley (Candide)
June Anderson (Cunegonde)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 4297342
CD 1 Track 13
3'01
18:33
Bernstein
The Kings' Barcarolle (Candide, Act 2)
Jerry Hadley (Candide)
Adolph Green (Pangloss)
Neil Jenkins (Prince Charles Edward)
Richard Suart (Hermann Augustus)
John Treleaven (Sultan Achmet)
Clive Bayley (Tsar Ivan)
Lindsay Benson (King Stanislaus)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 4297342
CD 2 Track 10
3'53
18:38
Mozart
Divertimento in D, K.136
Franz Liszt Chamber Orcheatra
Janos Rolla (director)
HUNGAROTON HCD124712
Tracks 1-3
10'39
18:51
Schubert
An die Laute D905; Du bist die Ruh' D776
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4452942
Tracks 20 & 19
6'24
18:56
Bach
Siciliane
Ida Haendel (violin)
TESTAMENT SBT2090
Track 4
3'43
