Episode 44: Heaven and Hell – The Divine Comedy
Sunday, 11th November 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser introduces about death and the worlds to come, including several rare recordings of 20th century Scottish works.
These include the first modern performance of Erik Chisholm’s orchestral Pictures from Dante with the BBC SSO, a unique recording from Cecil Gray’s opera The Temptation of St Anthony and part of Thomas Wilson’s opera Confessions of a Justified Sinner from 1978.
Episode Playlist
- Erik Chisholm: Pictures from Dante: Inferno,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Clark Rundell
BBC recording - Thomas Wilson: Confessions of a Justified Sinner (exc)
Philip Langridge (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone) Orchestra of Scottish Opera/Norman del Mar
BBC recording - Thomas Wilson: Confessions of a Justified Sinner (exc)
Philip Langridge (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone) Orchestra of Scottish Opera/Norman del Mar
BBC recording - John Hearne: The Four Horsemen – “War”
brass of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Brass/Anthony Swainson
BBC recording - Stuart MacRae: Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino
Loré Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Susanna Mälkki
NMC NMC D115 - Cecil Gray: The Queen of Sheba’s Aria from The Temptation of St Anthony
performers unknown - Chisholm: Pictures from Dante: Paradiso
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Clark Rundell
BBC recording - Chisholm: Pictures from Dante: Paradiso
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Clark Rundell
BBC recording
