31 October 2007
Wednesday 31 October 2007 17:00-19:00 (Radio 3)
Sean Rafferty welcomes jazz singer Stacey Kent to perform live with guitarist John Parricelli and soprano saxophonist Jim Tomlinson. Also in the studio, Anu Komsi and Cyndia Sieden talk about Esa-Pekka Salonen's Wing on Wing. They join the composer and his Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the first concert in the Barbican's Sibelius Unbound festival.
Playlist
17:03
BACH
Opening Chorus: Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (from Cantata No.69a)
Katharine Fuge (soprano)
Robyn Tyson (alto)
Christoph Genz (alto)
Peter Harvey (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
SDG 134
CD 1, tr. 1
4'52
17:08
LUTOSLAWSKI
Variations on a theme of Paganini
Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (pianos)
Philips 411 034-2
tr. 6
5'10
17:14
LIVE
Ice Hotel (Kazuo Ishiguro/Jim Tomlinson)
Stacey Kent (singer)
Jim Tomlinson (soprano saxophone)
John Parricelli (guitar)
5'04
17:24
LIVE
Saisons
Stacey Kent (singer)
John Parricelli (guitar)
2'28
17:32
What a wonderful world
Stacey Kent (singer)
EMI Bluenote 161126
tr. 12
4'23
17:38
TARTINI (arr. Zandonai)
Sonata in G minor "Devil's Trill"
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Trondheim Soloists
DG 463 259-2
trs. 13 - 16
16'46
17:55
HANDEL
Se un di m'adora la mia crudele (Aria) from Mi palpita il cor HWV 132c
Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone (director)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901957
tr.18
4'00
18:03
PROKOFIEV
Suggestion diabolique (Op.4, No.4)
Gianluca Cascioli (piano)
DG 453 422-2
tr. 27
2'28
18:05
TALLIS
Miserere nostri
Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh
DG 477 6605
tr. 1
2'30
18:09
SIBELIUS
Kaiutar [The Echo Nymph] (Op.72/4)
Anu Komsi (soprano)
Lynda Cochrane (piano)
BBC recording not available commercially
3'45
18:17
SALONEN
Wing on Wing (extract)
Anu & Piia Komsi (sopranos)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen
DG 477 5375
tr. 4
3'34
18:26
MOZART
Der Holle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen from Die Zauberflote (K.620)
Cyndia Sieden Queen of Night (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 449 166-2
CD 2, tr. 8
2'48
18:30
LISZT
Totentanz (S.126)
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa
DG 423 571-2
tr. 8
15'07
18:46
KOMSI, A
We Walk in the Fog
Anu Komsi (soprano)
Pia Varri (piano)
Alba ABCD 231
tr. 13
2'42
18:50
BACH arr. MAXWELL-DAVIES
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor
The Fires of London
Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies (conductor)
Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2044
tr. 5
5'15
18:55
BACH
Aria: Ach, es bleibt in meiner Liebe (from Cantata No. 77)
Nathalie Stuzmann (alto)
Niklas Eklund (baroque trumpet)
The English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
SDG 134
CD 2, tr. 5
4'08