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| Afternoon On 3 | ...Fiona Talkington presents coverage of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize 2007. The first round includes singers from South Africa, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Canada and Norway. With expert commentary from CATHERINE BOTT.... |
| All The Rage | ...This edition recreates the atmosphere of the second decade of the nineteenth century, with guests Ruth Richardson and Rachel Cowgill. CATHERINE BOTT sings.... |
| Antonio Caldara | ...CATHERINE BOTT explores the life and music of the Venetian born baroque composer Antonio Caldara.... |
| Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) | Cast and Crew |
| Archive Hour, The | ...But no other music has fallen out of fashion so far, so fast: Mantovani is derided as lift music or aural chewing gum - and it's hardly ever played on the radio. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, CATHERINE BOTT talks to the surviving members of 'Monty's' bands, and probes the reasons for his spectacular success and equally dramatic eclipse.... |
| Art And Early Music Month | ...As part of Art and Early Music Month, CATHERINE BOTT travels to Tivoli to visit the fountains in the great baroque gardens of the Villa d'Este. She finds out about the music connected with gardens and the man who commissioned them - Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, patron of many composers, including Palestrina.... |
| Artist Focus | ...With CATHERINE BOTT. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Conductor Simon Rattle begins the programme with Bernstein's Prelude, Fugure and Riffs.... |
| Bach In Cothen | ...CATHERINE BOTT looks at the at the six years Bach spent working for the young Prince Leopold of Anhalt in the German court at Cothen, a period which resulted in some of his most notable instrumental music.... |
| Bach's Sons - And A Cousin | ...CATHERINE BOTT (soprano)... |
| Bbc Cardiff Singer Of The World 2009 | ...From St David's Hall in Cardiff, Petroc Trelawny and CATHERINE BOTT present coverage of the grand final of the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Accompanied by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the contenders perform in front of an expert jury which includes Gwyneth Jones and Ann Murray.... |
| Bbc Proms 2005 | ...Presented by CATHERINE BOTT, live from the Royal Albert Hall.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...Presented by CATHERINE BOTT.... |
| Beaune Festival Of Baroque Opera 2005 | ...CATHERINE BOTT visits the French medieval town of Beaune in the Bourgogne to savour some of the highlights of 2005 Festival of baroque opera.... |
| Bremf 2007 | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents from the Sallis Benney Theatre at the University of Brighton. As part of this year's Brighton Early Music Festival, there's live music from ensembles Horses Brawl and Eclipse, and prize-winners from the 2007 London Handel Singing Competition soprano Anna Devin and baritone Derek Welton.... |
| British Composer Awards 2007 | ...With CATHERINE BOTT. Listeners choose which piece should win the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award in the 2007 British Composer Awards, organised with the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. The 12 entries will be broadcoast over the next fortnight on Radio 3, all of them BBC commissions that had their premieres last year. To vote, call 08700 100 300 [rates apply] or vote online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3.... |
| Cancionas Por Los Reyes | ...In this concert recorded earlier this month in Belfast, CATHERINE BOTT and friends perform a seductive selection of Villancico's Romanzas and Danzas from Ferdinand and Isabella's own musical collection, The Cancionas por los Reyes.... |
| Cantigas De Santa Maria, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents a programme from Santiago de Compostela, in northwest Spain. She follows the annual pilgrimage to the cathedral of St James and delves into the wonderful music from the Cantigas de Santa Maria.... |
| Cardiff Singer Of The World | ...Fiona Talkington and CATHERINE BOTT present the final of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize 2007, from St David's Hall in Cardiff.... |
| Celebrating Cecilia | ...CATHERINE BOTT tells the story of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music, examining her role as martyr, saint and muse and as the inspiration for some of the great works of music and literature, including work by Handel, Purcell and Benjamin Britten and Chaucer, Pope and Dryden. Catherine learns of Cecilia's gruesome martyrdom and subsequent place in history and witnesses preparations for the annual festival concert staged in her honour.... |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ...CATHERINE BOTT traces the life of Charles V through the music which he would have heard and with which he surrounded himself. At one point the most powerful man in Europe, he was also a notable patron of the arts, employing such musical luminaries as Pierre de la Rue, Thomas Crecquillon and Nicholas Gombert.... |
| Choir, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT joins Aled Jones for a look at an extraordinary choral project. Last autumn an all-female group of singers and instrumentalists travelled to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice where Antonio Vivaldi served, on and off, for much of his career.... |
| Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) | ...CATHERINE BOTT (soprano)... |
| Cole On Landowska | ...CATHERINE BOTT talks to Maggie Cole about two great harpsichordists of the early 20th Century, Wanda Landowska and Violet Gordon Woodhouse. These extraordinary women never met, but their enthusiasm and dedication to their instrument was remarkable. Music includes early recordings of pieces by Scarlatti, Bach, Rameau and Mozart.... |
| Composers Of The Year | ...... |
| Cornett, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT talks to cornett player and founder of His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, Jeremy West, to discover more about the history behind this expressive and demanding instrument. Music includes works by Scheidt, Ximenez, Giovanni Gabrieli and Merula.... |
| Countertenor David Daniels | ...CATHERINE BOTT interviews American countertenor David Daniels about his stage and recording career, and chooses music from some of his discs, including works by Francisco de la Torre, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi as well as arias from Handel's operas Tamerlano and Tolomeo. There are also two tracks from his most recent recording with The English Concert under Harry Bicket - of arias by Bach.... |
| Deborah - Handel The Charming Brute And The Birth Of Oratorio | ...In 1733 Handel started work on his first purpose-written Oratorio, Deborah. The piece was not popular with the audiences of the time, partly due to Handel's doubling of ticket prices. In addition to the ignominy of an unsuccessful work, the composer was in severe financial difficulty, his partnership with the impresario Heidegger was collapsing, he was being constantly lambasted by the King's son: the then Prince of Wales and a certain cartoon was doing the rounds showing Handel as a greedy hog. CATHERINE BOTT explores Deborah, and Handel's corresponding misfortunes.... |
| Derek Lee Ragin | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents highlights from a concert given by Florilegium and the countertenor Derek Lee Ragin at the 2008 Wyastone Lees Festival. With music by Vivaldi, Handel and Quantz, including arias composed for the 18th century's most celebrated castrato, Farinelli.... |
| Discovering Music | ...The great Italian composer is revered as one of music's great tunesmiths, but CATHERINE BOTT reveals there is much more to his art as she explores his Parisian masterpiece with singers Katie van Kooten and Peter Auty. Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.... |
| Duke Of Chandos, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT charts the rise and fall of the one-time patron of Handel, James Brydges, who, in 10 years, amassed great wealth and a palatial mansion with a 30-piece orchestra, only to lose it just as quickly.... |
| Early Music At Spitalfields | ...CATHERINE BOTT introduces a programme of vocal and instrumental music by Vivaldi, performed by Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima at the 2007 Spitalfields Festival.... |
| Early Music Show, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT and Lucie Skeaping delve into the world of early music, exploring developments in the performance of early music both here and abroad.... |
| Ebu Handel Day | ...... |
| Edinburgh International Festival 2008 | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents highlights of a concert of Gregorian chant, performed by medieval music ensembles Sequentia and Dialogos. The concert was recorded at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 2008 and it explores the various styles of chant found across Europe in medieval times.... |
| Emilio's Wedding | ...CATHERINE BOTT looks back on the life and musical career of Emilio de Cavalieri, famous for co-ordinating the music for one of the most lavish wedding celebrations in history - that of Maria de Medici and Henri IV of France.... |
| First New World Opera, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT looks at Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco's La Purpura de la rosa (The Blood Of The Rose), the first Opera ever to be performed in the New World which received its premiere in 1701 in Lima, Peru.... |
| First Song, The | ...Singer CATHERINE BOTT investigates the origins of song. Did humans invent singing, or did we simply copy animal cries? Was the first song our first language?... |
| George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) | ...... |
| Girolamo Frescobaldi | ...CATHERINE BOTT looks back on the life and music of Italian composer Frescobaldi, whose brilliance was such that 30,000 people attended his first performance on the organ at St Peter's in Rome.... |
| Giselle | ...CATHERINE BOTT looks back on the life and music of Italian composer Frescobaldi, whose brilliance was such that 30,000 people attended his first performance on the organ at St Peter's in Rome.... |
| Handel And The Foundling Hospital | ...CATHERINE BOTT is in Coram Fields in London, until 1926 the sight of the Foundling Hospital where in 1749 Handel presented a special charity concert.... |
| Handel And The Orchestra | ...Looking back to a time when the orchestra was yet to be standardised, CATHERINE BOTT considers the subject with music from Handel's operas and oratorios, including Giulio Cesare, Riccardo Primo and Saul.... |
| Handel Opera Cycle | ...... |
| Handel's Borrowing | ...CATHERINE BOTT explores Georg Friedrich Handel's controversial and frequent musical 'borrowings', which in today's world of music copyright would likely be condemned as plagiarism.... |
| Henry Purcell (1659-1695) | ...... |
| I Fagiolini | ...CATHERINE BOTT talks to Robert Hollingworth, director of the vocal ensemble of I Fagiolini, who celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. They discuss the development of the group and play music from several of their recordings, including a performance from this year's York Early Music Festival.... |
| Ich Bin Ein Hamburger | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents music written by composers who lived in or were from the German city of Hamburg. Including works by Praetorius, Weckmann, Scheidemann, Conradi, Handel, Telemann and CPE Bach.... |
| In Search Of The Roseingraves | ...CATHERINE BOTT travels to Dublin to learn more about the colourful 18th-century Roseingrave family, who seem determined to be more than just a footnote in the history of music.... |
| In The Name Of Bach | ...Music by lesser-known members of the Bach family, performed by Florilegium and CATHERINE BOTT (soprano).... |
| Instrumental Music From The Court Of Dresden | ...Saxony and its capital boast a long cultural history and many composers wrote for the Dresden orchestra. CATHERINE BOTT presents a programme of music including works by Heinichen, Hasse and virtuosi violinist Veracini.... |
| Israel In Egypt | ...CATHERINE BOTT provides a guide to the work, with musical examples to highlight its more unusual characteristics.... |
| Jeremiah Clarke | ...CATHERINE BOTT explores the output 350 years after his death of the early 18th century English composer Jeremiah Clarke, best known for the Prince of Denmark's March, or Trumpet Voluntary.... |
| Jewish Musicians At The English Court | ...CATHERINE BOTT's guest is the festival director Nicholas McGegan. Plus music from members of the Gottingen Festspiele Ensemble, and soloists including Dominique Labelle, Cecile van der Sant, Sophie Daneman, Gerald Thompson and Jose Lemus.... |
| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - A Year In The Life | ...CATHERINE BOTT, Elizabeth Scholl (soprano)... |
| Kit And The Widow Cocktails | ...Offering their unique brand of complementary therapy, this week Kit and the Widow invite CATHERINE BOTT into the studio to cast off the straitjacket of early music, and to perform with David Owen Norris some songs from her celebration of London in song.... |
| Kuijken At York | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents a concert recorded at the York Early Music Festival 2006. Flute player Barthold Kuijken and harpsichordist Ewald Demayere play pieces by the Bach family.... |
| La Stupenda - Joan Sutherland | ...Martin is joined in the studio by former director of the Edinburgh Festival Brian McMaster, singer and broadcaster CATHERINE BOTT and Australian academic and writer Peter Conrad to discuss the many aspects of the voice and character of this extraordinary musician. Music critic Rodney Milnes offers a personal view of her recording legacy. With music by Bach, Donizetti, Handel, Massenet, Handel, Bellini, Tippett and Rossini.... |
| Le Concert Spirituel | ...CATHERINE BOTT discusses the composers and perfomers associated with Le Concert Spirituel.... |
| Live From The Göttingen Handel Festival | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents the programme direct from the Göttingen Handel Festival in Germany. Her guest is the festival director Nicholas McGegan. Plus live music from members of the Göttingen Festspiele Ensemble, and soloists including Dominique Labelle, Cecile van der Sant, Sophie Daneman, Gerald Thompson and Jose Lemus.... |
| Love Death And The Lady | ...Verity Sharp presents a profile of the great British folk singer as a week of musical events curated by Shirley Collins begins at London's South Bank. The programme contains a lengthy interview and archive recordings. Contributors include CATHERINE BOTT and Lisa Knapp.... |
| Lucrezia Borgia And Josquin Des Pres | ...If ever a woman had bad press it was Lucrezia Borgia; the accusations of incest and murder have followed her down through the centuries. David Fallows, in conversation with CATHERINE BOTT, shows us another side of this enigmatic woman, a patron of the arts and music lover, and possibly even a performer.... |
| Lute And Song | ...Young American tenor Michael Slattery and lutenist Jakob Lindberg perform pieces from 16th-century Europe, specially recorded for the programme. CATHERINE BOTT explores the repertoire of the period, while the music including works by Dowland, Henry Laws and Monteverdi.... |
| Made In Britain | ...CATHERINE BOTT visits the Music Department at Cardiff University, home to the Mackworth Collection. This collection of manuscripts was built up over several generations of the Mackworth family, whose family seat was at Gnoll Castle, Neath, in Wales.... |
| Manchester Sonatas, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT introduces a live concert from Manchester celebrating the Bridgewater Hall's 10th anniversary, featuring early music by Vivaldi with a local connection. The performers are La Serenissima, with Adrian Chandler.... |
| Marie Salle | ...CATHERINE BOTT charts the life of the revolutionary French dancer Marie Salle in the 300th anniversary year of her birth. Leading Salle experts Dr Sarah McCleave of Queen's University, Belfast, and Baroque dancer and choreographer Jane Gingell access the legacy of a figure who inspired composers including Handel and Rameau.... |
| Masaaki Suzuki | ...CATHERINE BOTT is joined by harpsichordist, organist and conductor Masaaki Suzuki. Since 1990, Suzuki has been the musical director of Bach Collegium Japan, and his interpretations of Bach and, in particular, the cantatas have received great acclaim for their fresh, lyrical approach.... |
| Milton's Comus | ...As part of BBC Radio 3's commemoration of the 400th anniversary in 2008 of John Milton's birth, CATHERINE BOTT travels to Ludlow Castle to explore his masque Comus and the music it has inspired. With music by Henry Lawes, Comus was a work written to celebrate chastity and it was first presented on Michaelmas 1634, before John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle to mark the earl's elevation to Lord President of Wales.... |
| Munich Court, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents a programme of music with connections to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. He was a talented bass viol player and surrounded himself with many musicians, both in his court and in exile. Music includes works by Forqueray, Pez and Rupert Ignaz Mayr.... |
| Munich Remembered [radio Ulster] | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents music with connections to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. He was a talented bass viol player and surrounded himself with many musicians, both in his court and in exile. Music includes works by Forqueray, Pez and Rupert Ignaz Mayr.... |
| Music For Ascension Day | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents a programme of music associated with Ascension Day, which includes works by Dufay, Biber, Rosenmuller and Gibbons.... |
| Music For The Annunciation | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents two programmes for Passiontide, featuring music associated with the Feast of the Annunciation. With works by Parsons and Biber, plus the setting of the Seven Joys of Mary from the 14th-century Llibre Vermell, or Red-Velvet Book, of Montserrat, Catalonia.... |
| Music Live - Sunday Feature - Live | ...Pianist David Owen-Norris examines the enduring appeal of live performance. Contributors include soprano CATHERINE BOTT, jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard and critic Miles Kington ... |
| Music Of The Black Death | ...CATHERINE BOTT explores one of the deadliest pandemics in human history - the Black Death in the 14th Century - via the music of the composers who lived through the time. They include Guillaume de Machaut, who wrote of the plague in his poem The Judgement of the King of Navarre.... |
| Music Of The Mediterranean | ...Joined in the studio by Professor Martin Cunningham of University College Dublin, CATHERINE BOTT presents a concert recorded in The Coach House at Dublin Castle, given by the French ensemble Kadin Sarkilari back in February. The music is a fascinating mix of medieval songs and instrumental pieces from the Mediterranean, including Catalan songs, Troubadour music and Cantigas de Santa Maria.... |
| Musical Banquet, A | ...CATHERINE BOTT introduces a selection of music by John Dowland and his contemporaries taken from anthologies published by the composer's son Robert, performed by tenor Mark Padmore with lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.... |
| Mystery Plays Of Elche, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT visits the town of Elche, in south eastern Spain, to take in the spectacle of its Mystery Play. This long-standing piece of religious theatre written in a combination of Latin and the local Valencian dialect occurs every year on the feast of the Assumption of Mary.... |
| Off The Page | ...... |
| One Fine Day | ...CATHERINE BOTT spends a day in the company of the great Italian soprano Mirella Freni.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Stephanie Hughes celebrates the 400th anniversary of this outstanding work, seen as the first true opera ever written, with a performance selected from five different recordings. Studio guests John Whenham and Robert Hollingworth join her to discuss Monteverdi's achievement, with additional comment from those who have performed Orfeo, including conductors Jane Glover and Philip Pickett, singer CATHERINE BOTT and director David Freeman.... |
| Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, The | ...Ahead of this evening's Prom, CATHERINE BOTT is joined by chief executive of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Stephen Carpenter to explore the history of the orchestra and to hear some of its recordings.... |
| Ornaments Of The French Baroque | ...CATHERINE BOTT travels to Brussels to explore some exemplary repertoire with baroque flautist Barthold Kuijken.... |
| Orpheus Of Utrecht And His Garden Of Delights, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT visits Utrecht to trace the life, work and legacy of the remarkable 17th-century musical figure Jacob van Eyck, who became known as the Orpheus of Utrecht.... |
| Orpheus | ...The myth of Orpheus has provided the inspiration for operas, ballets, tone poems and other musical works throughout the ages. CATHERINE BOTT looks at settings of this story, and plays music from works by Stradella, Luigi Rossi, D'India and Alessandro Scarlatti.... |
| Palace Of Versailles, The | ...Lucie Skeaping and CATHERINE BOTT visit the Palace of Versailles to learn about its transformation from a humble hunting lodge into one of Europe's most impressive royal residences.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Live from City Halls, Glasgow. Presented by CATHERINE BOTT.... |
| Performer Profile | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents a profile of Alessandrini's work as a virtuoso harpsichordist, and his role as founder and director of his group Concerto Italiano. Music includes works by Vivaldi, Marenzio, Bach and Striggio.... |
| Pre-hear | ...Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with soprano CATHERINE BOTT in Joe Duddell's Not Waving But Drowning.... |
| Proms Plus | ...CATHERINE BOTT is joined by conductor Harry Bicket and musicologist Dr Berta Joncas for an introduction to Handel's oratorio Samson.... |
| Purcell And The Odes To Queen Mary | ...CATHERINE BOTT considers the music for the collection of annual birthday odes written for Queen Mary by her Composer in Ordinary, Henry Purcell.... |
| Purcell From Westminster Abbey | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents a special concert given at Westminster Abbey in celebration of the 350th annivesary of the birth of Henry Purcell. James O'Donnell conducts the Choir of Westminster Abbey Choir, St James's Baroque and a cast of soloists in Purcell's Te Deum and Jubilate, Funeral Sentences and the ode Hail, bright Cecilia!... |
| Purcell's Contemporaries | ...CATHERINE BOTT (soprano)... |
| Rachel Podger | ...CATHERINE BOTT traces the life of Charles V through the music which he would have heard and with which he surrounded himself. At one point the most powerful man in Europe, he was also a notable patron of the arts, employing such musical luminaries as Pierre de la Rue, Thomas Crecquillon and Nicholas Gombert.... |
| Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert | ...From the New Theatre in Cardiff, Fiona Talkington and CATHERINE BOTT present coverage of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Prize 2009. With the best young singers from across the globe in the first recital in the Song Prize, plus the best moments from the main competition.... |
| Sara Mohr-pietsch | ...CATHERINE BOTT (soprano)... |
| Silete Venti | ...CATHERINE BOTT (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Nicholas Kraemer. Handel: Silete venti.... |
| Sixteen - Choral Pilgrimage 2008, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents the highlights of a concert given by The Sixteen under the directorship of Harry Christophers, as part of their annual Choral Pilgrimage. The performance was recorded at St Chad's Church in Shrewsbury, and includes little-known works by Christopher Parsons, Robert White and Christopher Tye ... |
| Sound Stories | ...Richard Baker tells the stories of five women who either inspired men to make music or were musicians themselves. 4: Barbara Strozzi was a successful woman musician in the male-dominated world of 17th-century Venice. Adopted into a cultivated household, she became not only a fine singer but the composer of many remarkably adventurous songs both sacred and secular. Music includes: La faniuletta semplice; La, sol, fa, mi, re, do. CATHERINE BOTT (soprano), ensemble. I baci; Liberta. Musica Secreta. O Maria quam pulchra es. Maria-Christina Kiehr (soprano), Concerto Soave. Le tre grazie. Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley.... |
| Spitalfields Festival 2008 | ...CATHERINE BOTT talks to Jeremy West and Jamie Savan from the group - which is now in its 25th year and has a reputation as one of the foremost wind ensembles in the world - and introduces items from a concert given recently at the 2008 Spitalfields Festival, featuring music by Grillo and Gabrieli.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...Afternoon / Jocasta By Andrew Rissik Juliet Aubrey reads this new monologue exploring the psyche of Queen Jocasta, wife of Oedipus. It is early morning, and Oedipus has discovered that his wife is also his mother. Sitting alone, outcast, we are drawn into Jocasta's world as she tries to understand her situation, her guilt and what she feels compelled to do. Jocasta....Juliet Aubrey / Vocal Pyrotechnics From the early days of Baroque vocal ornamentation, through the florid coloratura of 18th Century opera, to the remarkable scat improvisations of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, the human voice has fascinated and amazed audiences for hundreds of years. Inspired by the vocal pyrotechnics of tonight's conductor, Bobby McFerrin, jazz singer Stephen Duffy looks at the history of vocal athletics, and discovers the origins of the virtuoso voice. With contributions from singers CATHERINE BOTT and Dame Cleo Laine, and vocal coaches Gordon Stewart and Linda Hirst. Evening Morning... |
| Versailles And Paris Month | ...Lucie Skeaping and CATHERINE BOTT visit the Palace of Versailles to learn about its transformation from a humble hunting lodge into one of Europe's most impressive royal residences.... |
| Viols And Voices | ...CATHERINE BOTT is joined in the studio by David Skinner and Bill Hunt to discuss the slightly controversial issue of combining voices with viols in an ecclesiastical setting. Music includes works by Tomkins, Byrd, Weelkes and Gibbons, and also some of the Services reconstructed for viols and voices by David Skinner... |
| Voices | ...CATHERINE BOTT... |
| What Is Baroque? | ...CATHERINE BOTT ponders the question.... |
| William Boyce (1711-1779) And Thomas Arne (1710-1778) | ...Mandane....CATHERINE BOTT... |
| William Byrd - Loyal Servant Of The Crown And Devout Catholic | ...CATHERINE BOTT and viol player John Bryan present highlights from a concert featuring Stile Antico and the Rose Consort of Viols that focuses on an apparent contradiction in William Byrd's output.... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...2/5. Classical singer and broadcaster CATHERINE BOTT shows how writers as diverse as JM Coetzee and Joyce Grenfell have attempted to convey what music means in words. Sharing her deep love of the Archers, the readers are Patricia Greene and Tim Bentinck (Jill and David Archer).... |
| Wounds, The | ...This year's Good Friday liturgy is a devotion on the Passion of Christ from the award-winning partnership of poet Michael Symmons Roberts and composer James Whitbourn. With CATHERINE BOTT (soprano), Simon Russell Beale (reader), Yuri Torchinsky (violin), Peter Dixon (cello) and the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by the composer.... |
| York Early Music Festival, The | ...CATHERINE BOTT presents a special live Early Music Show from this year's York Early Music Festival featuring music by Joseph Haydn, inspired by 18th century women musicians. The performers are the soprano Rachel Elliott, and the fortepianist Olga Tverskaya.... |