22 December 2006
Friday 22 December 2006 17:00-19:30 (Radio 3)
Sean welcomes Soprano Emma Kirkby and cellist Charles Medlam who look forward to their Christmas engagements. Plus, programme highlights from 2006.
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
5:03
Christmas Festival Overture
Leroy Anderson
London 'Pops' Orchestra / Frederick Fennell (conductor)
Mercury 434 376-2 T8
5:10
Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren / Allelujah (Cantata BWV 51)
Bach
Emma Kirkby (sop) / Leanne Sullivan (trumpet)
Orchestra of the Antipodes / Antony Walker (conductor)
ABC Classics 476 5255 T4&5
5:20
LIVE
The woods and the rocks
Robert Johnson
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Charles Medlam (viola da gamba)
5:26
LIVE
A duo for love
Robert Johnson
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Charles Medlam (viola da gamba)
5.30
Fantasia
Wojciech Dlugoraj
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
BIS-SACD-1505 Track 21
5.33
Shall I strive with words to move?
John Dowland
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
BIS-SACD-1505 Track 22
5.42
HIGHLIGHT 1
INTERVIEW Mitsuko Uchida and Barbara Sukowa
MUSIC Sonata 1st movt Op.109 - Beethoven
5.53
CD (CDR)
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen Trad./ arr Praetorius
Verse 1 - Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 462 050-2 T10
SEGUED TO
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen Praetorius / Jan Sandstrom
Allmanna Sangen / Cecilia Rydinger Alin
BIS BIS-NL-CD 5028
6.03
HIGHLIGHT 2
INTERVIEW Simon Trpceski
MUSIC: Mazurka Op. 24. No.1 in G Minor - Chopin
MUSIC: Mazurka in A Minor Op.17 No.4 - Chopin
6.19
HIGHLIGHT 3
INTERVIEW Ballet Boyz
MUSIC "Encore un W" performed by Bratko Bibic (accordion)
6.31
John Wainwright
Irish traditional song
Mellstock Band
SER 008
6.33
I Wonder as I Wander - John Jacob Niles
Emily van Evera (sop) / Susan Harris (hammer dulcimer)
EMI CDC7 54902-2 T3
6.35
HIGHLIGHT 4
INTERVIEW Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazon
MUSIC O Soave Fanciulla (La Boheme) - Puccini - Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazon; Dresden Staatskapelle
MUSIC Rimsky-Korsakov The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Swan-bird's aria - Anna Netrebko; Mariinsky, Gergiev
MUSIC Monteverdi Eri gia tutta mia - Rolando Villazon; Le Concert d'Astree, Emmanuel Haim
6.55
In the Bleak Mid-Winter (Harold Darke arr. Tunick)
Kiri te Kanawa & Roberto Alagna
The Abbey Road Ensemble (!) / Jonathan Tunick
EMI 5 56262-2 T14
HIGHLIGHT 5
INTERVIEW Kiri Te Kanawa
7.11
HIGHLIGHT 6
INTERVIEW Sting & Edin Karamazov
MUSIC Come Again - Dowland
MUSIC Have you seen the bright lily grow - Robert Johnson
7.20
Lullay, thou tiny little child
John Jacob Niles
Emily van Evera (sop)/Susan Harris (hammer dulcimer)
EMI CDC7
54902-2 T3
7.28
Mrs Beeton's Christmas Plum Pudding (Average cost 3s 6d) - John Harle
Eleanor Bron & Charles Collingwood (speakers)
BBC Singers / Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
BBC Music WMEF 0063-2 T20 (ends with groove scrape!)
