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| Accidental Beauties Of Silly Songs | ...Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith explores WH Auden's fascination with music and song. He looks at Auden's collaboration with Benjamin Britten on cabaret songs and the musical PAUL BUNYAN, as well as his libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.... |
| Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) | ...Bunyan's Farewell: Litany (PAUL BUNYAN)... |
| Expressing Your Affection | ...Britten: Hymn (PAUL BUNYAN)... |
| Opera In Action | ...Graem Kaye continues his exploration of the representation of nationality in opera with a look at works about America and Americans. Music includes Bernstein's West Side Story, Britten's PAUL BUNYAN, Franchetti's Cristoforo Colombo and Puccini's Madam Butterfly.... |
| Performing Britten | ...PAUL BUNYAN... |
| When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection | ...In the second of two programmes marking the thirtieth anniversary of WH Auden's death, Simon Russell Beale introduces a selection of Auden's poems from the time of his move to America. Benjamin Britten was also living in the States during the early war years, and today's programme features collaborations between the two, and settings of Auden's work by Henze and Bernstein. Britten: Cabaret songs: Calypso Della Jones (mezzo) Steuart Bedford (piano) Britten: Excerpt from PAUL BUNYAN, Hymn, Act 2 Kenneth Cranham (speaker) Susan Gritton (soprano) Timothy Robinson (tenor) Royal Opera Chorus Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Richard Hickox (conductor) Britten: Cabaret songs: Tell me the truth about love Jill Gomez (soprano) Martin Jones (piano) Henze: In Memoriam LKA 1950-52 Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) Excerpt: The Masque Philippe Entremont (piano) New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein (conductor) Britten: Hymn for St Cecilia Part III The Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).... |