10 January 2006
Tuesday 10 January 2006 17:00-19:30 (Radio 3)
Mark Elder and Vassily Sinaisky talk about the Royal Northern College of Music's 'Shostakovich and his Heroes' Festival at the Bridgewater Hall.
Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras and translator Kit Hesketh talk about Francesca Zambello's production of Smetana's opera 'The Bartered Bride' about to be revived at the Royal Opera House.
Soprano Susan Bullock talks about Strauss' Salome. She will sing the title role in an Opera North concert performance in Leeds later this month.
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
17:02:
Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor Charles Mackerras
CHAN 3128
CD 1 TR 1
17:10
Bach Prelude & Fugue in A, BWV864 (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book I)
Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano)
MK 418042
CD 2 TR 7
17:14
Shostakovich
Symphony No 5 (2nd movement)
Kirov Orchestra
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Philips 470 651 2
TR 2
17:26
Britten
Violin Concerto, Op 15 (extract from 1st movement)
Mark Lubotsky (violin)
ECO
Conductor Benjamin Britten
London 417 308 2
TR 5
17:38
Shostakovich
Symphony No 4
Kirov Orchestra
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Philips 475 619 0
TR 6
17:46
Beethoven
String Quartet in F (after Piano Sonata, Op 14 No 1)
Tokyo String Quartet
RCA 09026 61284 2
CD 1 TR 9-11
18:03
Liszt
Tarantella (Annees de Pelerinage)
Stephen Hough (piano)
VC 790700 2
TR 2
18:13
Smetana
“Faithful love I vow to you” (The Bartered Bride, Act 1, Scene 2)
Marenka (Susan Gritton)
Paul Charles Clarke (Jenik)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor Charles Mackerras
CHAN 3128
CD 1 TR 8
18:23
Smetana
“Don’t say you’re the boy”; “I know there’s a girlfor you” (The Bartered Bride, Act II Scene 3)
Susan Gritton (Marenka)
Timothy Robinson (Vasek)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor Charles Mackerras
CHAN 3128
CD 1 TR 18-19
18:37
Smetana
Finale (The Bartered Bride, Act III)
Susan Gritton (Marenka)
Paul Charles Clarke (Jenik)
The Royal Opera Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor Charles Mackerras
CHAN 3128
CD 2 TR 23-25
18:45
Myslivecek
Octet No 3 in B flat
Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
EMI CDC 5 55512 2
TR 11-13
18:55
Teleman
Violin Concerto in D Major TWV 51:D10
L’Ordeo Barock Orchestra
Elizabeth Wallfisch
CPO 999 9002 T
TR 22-24
19:02
Chausson
“Lui survivre! Comment l’a-t-il pu croire?”
(Le Roi Arthus, Act III, Scene 3 – extract)
Susan Bullock (Genievre)
BBC SO
Conductor Leon Botstein
Telarc CD 80645
CD 3 TR 4
19:14
Strauss
Final scene (Salome)
Astrid Varnay (Salome)
Julius Patzak (Herodes)
Margarete Klose (Herodias)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Hermann Weigert
Orfeo C503002I
CD 2 TR 4-5
