In Tune - 01/06/2009 Holland Park Opera and Midsummer Music

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the music world. Conductor Richard Bonynge and director Lindsay Poser join Sean in the studio to talk about Holland Park Opera's 20th anniversary year and the forthcoming production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, from which soprano Majella Cullagh and tenor Leonardo Capalbo perform excerpts. Plus conversation and performance from pianist Paul Lewis and cellist Bjorg Lewis, artistic directors of Midsummer Music, a new chamber music festival in the Chilterns. 17:02 GLINKA Lezginka – Oriental Dance (Ruslan and Lyudmila, act 4) USSR Symphony Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor) MELODIVA 74321 53461 2 3’11 17:06 SCHUBERT Sonata in B flat Major – D. 960 (3rd movement) Paul Lewis (piano) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU901800 Track 7 3’44 17:11 HAYDN Symphony no. 101 in D major "Clock" (2nd movement) Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra Adam Fischer (Conductor) NIMBUS 5105 Track 2 8.18 17:20 LIVE DONIZETTI Roberto Devereux (Act 1, scene 1 ‘l’amor suo mi fè beata’) Majella Cullagh (soprano) Liz Rowe (piano) 2’35 17:27 LIVE DONIZETTI Roberto Devereux (Act 3, scene 2 ‘Io ti dirò fra gli ultimi singhiozzi’) Leonardo Capalbo (tenor) Liz Rowe (piano) 2’41 17:37 LIVE DONIZETTI Roberto Devereux (Act 1, scene 1‘Un tenero cuore’) Majella Cullagh (soprano) Leonardo Capalbo (tenor) Liz Rowe (piano) 2’31 17:42’44 BACH Concerto for 2 violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043 Hilary Hahn (violin) Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Kahane (conductor) DG 474 199-2 Tracks 4-6 14’18 17:57 TRADITIONAL Time of the Gypsies Roby Lakatos and his ensemble DEUTSCHE GRAMMAPHON DG471 562-2 Track 4 2’58 18:03 BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Overture) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) TELDEC 3984-25249-2 CD2, Track 13 6’54 18:11 GLAZUNOV 5 Novelettes Op.15 (No. 1 Alla Spagnuola) Vertavo Quartet SIMAX PSC 1178 Track 11 5’48 18:23 LIVE SCHUBERT Impromptu No. 2 in A flat major. Allegretto Op. 142 D935. Paul Lewis (piano) 5’20 18:32 LIVE LISZT La Lugubre Gondola Paul Lewis (piano) Bjørg Lewis (cello) 7’51 18:41 PURCELL Sonata in Four Parts, Sonata No. 7 in C major Retrospect Trio LINN CKD 332 Tracks 28 – 33 6’47 18 :48 SHOSTAKOVICH Jazz Suite No. 1 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Riccardo Chailly (conductor) DECCA 433 702-2 Tracks 1-3 7’56 18:57’33 RAVEL Sur l’herbe Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) HYPERION CDA67728 Track 12 2’06