6 September 2006
Wednesday 6 September 2006 17:00-19:30 (Radio 3)
Nicolas Kenyon, Director of the Proms, offers you a chance to put a question or point to him about this year's season. Plus, live music from soprano Katherine Allen, who is starring in the Castrati Series at the Handel House Museum. Sean Rafferty's third guest is music director and composer Steve Chandra Savale, from the new ENO commission - Gaddafi: A Living Myth.
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
1703
Handel: Overture to Ottone re di Germania
The Kings Consort
Cond by Robert King
Hyperion CDA 66751 CD 1 of 2
Live phone-in with Proms director Nicolas Kenyon
1720
Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue no 2 in A minor
Prelude and Fugues op 87
Tatiana Nikolayeva
HYPERION CDA 66441/3
1755
Trad Russian Folk Song
Phililips 434 080
1805
Dallapiccola
Tartiniana
James Ehnes violin
BBC Philharmonic
Chandos CHAN 10258
1815
LIVE
Handel
Svegliatevi nel core (Giulio Cesare)
Katherine Allen mezzo
Julian Perkins Piano
1830
LIVE
Handel
Verdi prati (Alcina)
Katherine Allen mezzo
Julian Perkins Piano
1845
LIVE
Handel
Abbruccio, avvampo e fremo (Rinaldo)
Katherine Allen mezzo
Julian Perkins Piano
1845
Pergolesi
Sinfonia in F
Raglan Baroque Players
Directed by Nicholas Kraemer
Hyperion CDA 67230
1855
Schumann: Overture, Manfred
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Cond by Rafael Kubelik
Sony SBK 48270 Track 10 12'06"
1905
Asian Dub Foundation
'Who runs this place ?'
Savale/Mburu/Taylor
EMI Labels Opendisc 5637950
1910
Sound excerpt from Gaddafi
'God keep our Leader safe'
chorus sung by the Revolutionary nuns
Sharon Duncan-Brewster [ Fatima ],
Bridgitta Roy [=Gaddafi's mother] (vocals)
& chorus
Private recording
1916
Strauss: Elektra (Excertp)
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Cond. Richard Krauss
KOCH 316432 Disc 1 track 2
1920
Liszt: March of the Circassians, from Glinka's Russlan & Ludmilla
Leslie Howard piano
Hyperion CDA 67406 CD 1 of 2
