06/07/2011 Thomas Allen, Mark Anthony Turnage
Presented by Sean Rafferty. Baritone Thomas Allen performs Wolf, Schubert and Ravel. Composer Mark Anthony Turnage talks about the new production of his opera Greek.
Internationally renowned operatic baritone Sir Thomas Allen has performed at Covent Garden Opera House for over thirty-five years. He joins Sean Rafferty in the studio for a live performance ahead of his appearance at the Ryedale Festival. He is accompanied on piano by Christopher Glynn, artistic director of Ryedale Festival.
Also on the programme, composer Mark Anthony Turnage talks to Sean about the new production of his opera 'Greek' with the Music Theatre Wales. It will be at Cheltenham Festival this week, and tours the UK until November. Director Michael McCarthy also joins.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Finale from Carnival of the Animals
Performer: Pascal Roge (piano) Performer: Cristina Ortiz (piano) Performer: London Sinfonietta Performer: Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA 414 460-2.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Minuetto from Serenade for wind instruments in D minor Op.44
Performer: Consortium Classicum
- MDG 301 0416-2.
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Wolf
Der Tambour from Morike Lieder
Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone) Performer: Christopher Glynn (piano)
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Franz Schubert
Standchen from Schwanengesang
Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone) Performer: Christopher Glynn (piano)
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Maurice Ravel
Le Paon (The Peaccock) from Histoires naturelles
Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone) Performer: Christopher Glynn (piano)
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 174
Performer: Taverner Players Performer: Andrew Parrott (director)
- Virgin Classics 5 61304 2.
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LASSUS
Credo from Missa Amor ecco colei
Performer: The Brabant Ensemble Performer: Stephen Rice (director)
- HYPERION CDA67887.
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Jules Massenet
Scenes pittoresques, Air de Ballet
Performer: Orchestre National de L'Opera de Monte Carlo Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- ERATO 3984-24277-2.
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George Gershwin
It Ain't Necessarily So from Porgy and Bess
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald (vocal) Performer: Louis Armstrong, trumpet and vocal Performer: Orchestra conducted by Russell Garcia
- VERVE 827 475-2.
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Johannes Brahms
2nd Scherzo from Serenade No.1 in D major Op.11
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Claudio Abbado Performer: Dg 477 8221
- Disc 4.
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Turnage
Greek: Act I - Breakfast Quartet/Fortune Teller Richard Suart (Dad)
Performer: Helen Charnock Performer: Quentin Hayes Performer: Fiona Kimm Performer: The Greek Ensemble Performer: Richard Bernas (conductor)
- DECCA 473 426-2.
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Turnage
Greek: Act II Scene 1 "Ten years have come and gone."
Performer: Quentin Hayes Performer: Fiona Kimm Performer: The Greek Ensemble Performer: Richard Bernas
- DECCA 473 426-2.
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Turnage
Greek: Act II Scene 5 "We only love, so it doesn't matter鈥�"
Performer: Richard Suart Performer: Helen Charnock Performer: Quentin Hayes Performer: Fiona Kimm Performer: The Greek Ensemble Performer: Richard Bernas (conductor)
- DECCA 473 426-2.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in G flat major, op. 70 no. 1
Performer: Ashkenazy (piano) Performer: Decca 436 389 2
- CD.2 Tr. 9.
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