5 July 2006
Wednesday 5 July 2006 17:00-19:30 (Radio 3)
Petroc Trelawny's guests include tenor Ben Heppner, who plays Calaf in Puccini's Turandot at the Royal Opera House - opening this week.
Live music comes from violinist Ernst Kovacic and pianist David Owen Norris, ahead of their concert in the City of London Festival. There's also the chance to hear about the Dante String Quartet's series of concerts taking place in Cornwall.
The Royal Opera House are showing Turandot via big screens around the country on Friday 7th July. Before the opera begins there will also be the chance to learn the aria 'Nessun Dorma', best known as the theme tune for the Italia 90 World Cup, in a sing-along with 3 tenors from the Royal Opera. The screenings begin at 6.50pm in the following places
London - Covent Garden Piazza and Canary Wharf
Aberdeen - Duthie Park
Belfast - Botanical Gardens
Birmingham - Chamberlain Square
Bowness on Windemere - The Glebe
Bradford - Centenary Square Terrace
Hull - Queen Victoria Square
Leeds - Millenium Square
Liverpool - Clayton Square
Manchester - Exchange Square
Rotherham - All Saints Square
Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
17:03
REZNICEK
Donna Diana : Overture
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta
SBK 63053
Tr 14
17:08
WAGNER
Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemonde
from Die Walkure
Ben Heppner : tenor
Staatskapelle Dresden
Peter Schneider
DG 00289 477 6003
Tr 2
17:15
PUCCINI
Nessun Dorma
from Turandot
Ben Heppner : tenor
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra
Roberto Abbado
RCA 0902 6625042
Tr 8
17:24
WAGNER
Brunnhilde, heilige Braut
from Gotterdammerung
Ben Heppner : tenor
Staatskapelle Dresden
Peter Schneider
DG 00289 477 6003
Tr 10
17:30
BARTOK
transcr. Szekely
Romanian Folk Dances
Krysia Osostowicz : violin
Susan Tomes : piano
Helios CDH 55149
Tr 8-13
17:37
C.P.E.BACH
Oboe Concerto in E flat, Wq 165
Heinz Holliger : oboe
Camerata Bern
Philips 454 450 2
Tr 6-8
17:57
CHOPIN
Mazurka in A flat major Op. 24 no. 3
Artur Pizarro (piano)
Linn CKD248
Tr. 11
18:03
COLES
Overture : The Comedy of Errors
BBC Scottish SO
Martyn Brabbins
Hyperion CDA 67293
Tr 1
18:15
LIVE
KORNGOLD
Suite: Much ado about nothing
1st movt
-segue-
18:18
LIVE
ROBERT FUCHS
Drei Amouretten für Violine und Klavier
Ernst Kovacic (violin)
David Owen Norris (piano)
18:28
LIVE
SCHOENBERG
Notturno (arrang. from string orchestra and harp)
Ernst Kovacic (violin)
David Owen Norris (piano)
18:36
LIVE
KREISLER
Kleiner Wiener Marsch
Ernst Kovacic (violin)
David Owen Norris (piano)
18:39
GLIERE
Concerto for coloratura soprano
Natalie Dessay : soprano
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schønwandt
EMI 5 56565 2
Tr 9-10
18:54
DEBUSSY
Premiere Rapsodie
Mazimiliano Martin : clarinet
Inocencio Negrin : piano
LINN CKD 280
Tr 7
19:05
SMETANA
D minor String Quartet
Final movement
Dante Quartet
BBC Recording from Hay Festival 2006
19:10
SCHUMANN
Introduction and Allegro appassionato for piano
and orchestra, op 92
Rudolf Serkin : piano
Philadelphia Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
SMK 60324
Tr 5
19:27
Johann Strauss
Leichtes Blut, Polka Op. 319
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Apex 0927 499812
Tr. 3
