29 June 2007
Friday 29 June 2007 17:00-19:00 (Radio 3)
Sean Rafferty's guests include Violeta Urmana and Salvatore Licitra who talk about the revival of Puccini's Tosca at the Royal Opera House, plus the Mandelring Quartet discuss their forthcoming concert at the Wigmore Hall
Playlist
17:02
Shostakovich
Festival Overture, Op 96
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy
Decca 436 762 2
Track 1
17:09
Herzogenberg
Quartet in G minor, Op 42 No 1 (3rd movement: Allegro molto)
Mandelring Quartet
Audite 97.504
Track 7
17:14
Ponchielli
Suicido (La Gioconda, Avt IV)
Violeta Urmana (Gioconda)
Munich Radio Orchestra/Marcello Viotti
EMI 557451 2
CD 3 Track 12
17:24
Verdi
Si, la stanchezza m'opprime o figlio (Il Trovatore, Act III)
Violeta Urmana (Azucena)
Salvatore Licitra (Manrico)
Orchestra of La Scala Milan/Riccardo Muti
Sony S2K 89553
CD 2 Track 18
17:32
Puccini
E lucevan le stele (Tosca, Act III)
Salvatore Licitra (Cavaradossi)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Riccardo Muti
Sony S2K 89271
CD 2 Track 18
17:36
Mozart
Piano Sonata in C K.545
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 432 989 2
CD 2 Tracks 3-5
17:49
Weber, orch Berlioz
Invitation to the Dance
Hanover Band/Roy Goodman
Nimbus NI 5154
Track 5
18:03
Bach
Erbarme dich, mein Gott (St Matthew Passion, BWV244)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo)
Musica Florea/Marek Stryncl
Archiv 457 367 2
Track 4
18:12
LIVE
Mendelssohn
Quartet No. 1 in E flat, Op 12 (2nd Movement: Canzonetta)
Mandelring Quartet
18:20
LIVE
Beethoven
Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 no. 4 (3rd Movement -Minuetto)
Mandelring Quartet
18:30
LIVE
Shostakovich
Scherzo
Mandelring Quartet
18:33
Faure
Masques et Bergamasques
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 449 186 2
Tracks 10-13
18:48
Schubert/Liszt
Soirees de Vienne s427
Stephen Hough
Hyperion CDA 67043
Track 1
18:54
Krommer
Concerto for two clarinets in Eb Op. 91 (3rd Movement: Alla Polacca)
Sabine Meyer & Julian Bliss (Clarinets)
Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields/Kenneth Sillito
EMI 3 79786 2
Track 3