9 May 2008
Friday 9 May 2008 17:00-19:00 (Radio 3)
Sean Rafferty welcomes opera stars from productions at either end of the country. With director Dominic Hill and baritone Peter Sidhom ahead of their production of Falstaff with Scottish Opera this month, while tenor Jonas Kaufmann and soprano Micaela Carosi talk about their work on Puccini's Tosca at the Royal Opera House.
Playlist
5.02
Mozart
Der Schauspieldirektor
ASMF/Marriner
EMI 5 85060 2
Track 9
03.41
5.13
Verdi
Falstaff: "So che andiam, la notte."
Tito Gobbi (Falstaff)/Renato Ercolani (Bardolfo)
Nicola Zaccaria (Pistola)/Philharmonia/Karajan
EMI 5 67083 2
Disc 1 Tracks 2-4
09.55
5.27
Verdi
Falstaff: end of the opera
Tito Gobbi (Falstaff)/Rolando Panerai (Ford)/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Alice)/etc
Philharmonia/Karajan
EMI 5 67083 2
Disc 2 Tracks 25-26
07.00
5.35
Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen
Orchestre national de France/Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)/Seiji Ozawa
EMI 2 97634 2
Disc 2 Track 8
07.46
5.44
Bernstein
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
London Sinfonietta/Rattle
EMI 2 06626 2
Track 14
07.45
5.52
Scarlatti
Sonata in E K380
Dejan Lazic (piano)
Channel Classics 23407
Track 21
05.53
6.03
Vaughan-Williams
The Wasps Overture
LPO/Boult
EMI 2 07992 2
Disc 2 Track 1
10.07
6.14
Puccini
Tosca: E lucevan le stelle
Jonas Kaufman (Cavaradossi)/Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Marco Armiliato
Decca 475 996 6
Track 4
03.15
6.24
Puccini
Tosca: Te deum from the end of Act 1
Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia)/VPO/Vienna State Opera Chorus/Karajan
Decca 421 670-2
Disc 1 Track 10
05.00
6.32
Puccini
Tosca: Love duet from Act 1
Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi)/Leontyne Price (Tosca)/VPO/Karjan
Decca 421 670-2
Disc 1 Track 5
12.33
6.49
Corelli
Concerto grosso in D Op6/4
La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
DHM 77007
Disc 1 Tracks 13-15
10.35
