Shakesepeare And Mccabe [Afternoon Concert]

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0120090420Penny Gore presents music celebrating the birthdays of Shakespeare and composer John McCabe.

McCabe: Horn Concerto (rainforest iv)

David Pyatt (horn)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

3.30pm

Chris de Souza: Bottom's Dream

BBC Singers

3.50pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat, K271

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Shai Wosner (piano/director)

Shostakovich: Symphony No 9

Michal Dworzinski (conductor).

Penny Gore presents John McCabe's Horn Concerto, and music by Berlioz, Mozart and de Souza

0220090421Penny Gore presents music celebrating the birthdays of Shakespeare and composer John McCabe.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Shai Wosner (piano/director)

Frank Martin: Songs of Ariel

BBC Singers

James Weeks (conductor)

2.40pm

McCabe: Concerto No 1 for piano and orchestra, Op 42

John McCabe (piano)

Christopher Austin (conductor)

3.10pm

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Verdi: Willow Song; Ave Maria (Otello)

Desdemona - Kristine Opolais (soprano)

Respighi: Pines of Rome

4.05pm

Puccini: Scene by the Barriere d'enfer (La boheme)

Mimi - Kristine Opolais (soprano)

Musetta - Sarah Tynan (soprano)

Rodolfo - Tomislav Muzek (tenor)

Marcello - Franco Vassallo (baritone)

Respighi: Feste romane

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

Penny Gore presents John McCabe's Concerto No 1 for piano and orchestra. Plus Respighi.

0320090422Penny Gore presents music celebrating the birthdays of Shakespeare and composer John McCabe.

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

2.50pm

John McCabe: Mangan Triptych

BBC Singers

David Hill (conductor)

3.20pm

Haydn: Symphony No 92 (Oxford)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Kraemer (director).

Sullivan: Dance of the Nymphs and Reapers; Prelude to Act v and Epilogue from 'The Tempest' Suite

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Penny Gore presents John McCabe's Mangan Triptych, plus music by Prokofiev and Haydn.

04Handel: Tamerlano, Acts 1 And 220090423Handel Operas 2009

As part of BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas, Penny Gore presents the tragic tale of Bajazet and Asteria, a proud Ottoman Sultan and his beautiful daughter, captured by the vicious Tartar Emperor Tamerlano. A work without the 'lieto fine' or happy ending, so beloved of Handel's London opera audiences, it is considered to be Handel's deepest, darkest and most 'Shakespearean' opera.

Handel: Tamerlano (Acts 1 and 2)

Tamerlano - Monica Bacelli (contralto)

Bajazet - Tom Randle (tenor)

Asteria - Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano)

Andronico, her lover - Graham Pushee (countertenor)

Irene, Princess betrothed to Tamerlano - Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano)

Leone, Andronico's sidekick - Antonio Abete (bass)

The English Concert

Trevor Pinnock (director)

4.10pm

Shakespeare and McCabe

Continuing a series to celebrate the birthdays of Shakespeare and composer John McCabe.

Mendelssohn: Overture (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Shakespeare Songs

BBC Singers

James Weeks (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet, Op 67 - fantasy overture

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Tamerlano. Plus music celebrating Shakespeare's birthday.

05Handel: Tamerlano (act 3)20090424Handel Operas 2009

Tamerlano - Monica Bacelli (contralto)

Bajazet - Tom Randle (tenor)

Asteria - Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano)

Andronico - Graham Pushee (countertenor)

Irene - Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano)

Leone - Antonio Abete (bass)

The English Concert

Trevor Pinnock (director)

Plus Shakespeare and McCabe

Penny Gore presents music celebrating the birthdays of Shakespeare and composer John McCabe.

3.10pm

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

McCabe: Arthur Pendragon - Ballet Suite No 1

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Christopher Austin (conductor)

4.05pm

Jaakko Mantyjarvi: Shakespeare Songs

BBC Singers

James Weeks (conductor)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jac van Steen (conductor).

Handel: Tamerlano (Act 3). Plus Shakespeare and McCabe: John McCabe: Arthur Pendragon.