22 May 2006
Monday 22 May 2006 17:00-19:30 (Radio 3)
The programme includes a selection of songs by Richard Strauss, sung live in the studio by Christine Brewer; Sean Rafferty talks to this year's BBC Young Musician of the Year, clarinettist Mark Simpson; and The Mellstock Band launch the New English Hymnal Supplement, with the aid of a couple of serpents and a concertina.
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
17:02’50
Nielsen
Clarinet Concerto
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Northern Sinfonia, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
17:08'50
LIVE
R Strauss
Befreit
Christine Brewer (soprano), Tony Legge (piano)
17:18'27
Beethoven
'O namenlose Freude' from Fidelio
Christine Brewer (Leonore)
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Oct 2005
BBC Recording
17:26'04
LIVE
R Strauss
Allerseelen; Zueignung
Christine Brewer (soprano), Tony Legge (piano)
17:33'25
Mozart
Rondo, K373
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Conducted by James MacMillan
DG 476 315 9 Tr 5
17:39'39
Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
Argo 414 595-2, Track 4
17:53'22
Finzi
In years defaced
The Market-Girl
Budmouth Dears
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Linn CKD 253 Tracks 9, 10, 17
18:03'50
William Wallace
The Love of Pelleas for Melisande
BBC Scottish symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Hyperion CDA66987 Tr2
18:11'02
Rossini
'Per lui che adoro' from L'italiana in Algeri
Agnes Baltsa (Isabella, the Italian girl herself)
Vienna Philharmonic
Conducted by Claudio Abbado
DG 427 331-2, CD 2, Track 10
18:16'53
Mark Simpson
Lov(escape)
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Elizabeth Burley (piano)
BBC Recording
18:24'57
Mark Simpson
It was as if the earth stood still (extract)
Ensemble 10/10, conductor Clark Rundell
BBC Recording
18:31'32
Finzi
from 5 Bagatelles
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Elizabeth Burley (piano)
18:38'50
Berlioz
La mort d'Orphée
Rolando Villazon (tenor)
'Les Elements' Chorus
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Conducted by Michel Plasson
EMI 557499-2, Tracks 2-6
18:53'16
Wagner
Piano Sonata for Mathilde Wesendonck
Gerhard Oppitz (playing Wagner's own Steinway grand at Villa Wahnfried, Bayreuth)
RCA 09026 61843-2 Track 1
19:03'31
LIVE
Trad arr. Dave Townsend – Our captain calls
Mellstock Band
19:11'05
LIVE
attrib. Thomas Sholes – Psalm 43
Mellstock Band
19:21'02
LIVE
Trad arr. Dave Townsend – Dives and Lazarus
Mellstock Band
19:24'25
Peter Maxwell Davies
Lullabye for Lucy
St Mary's Music School Choir, Edinburgh conducted by the composer
Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9070 Track 14
