Afternoon on 3 - Ancient Greece - Episode 5

Louise Fryer presents music inspired by ancient Greek myths, with a focus on Antigone. She comforts her blinded father Oedipus in incidental music by Radio 3's Composer of the Year Felix Mendelssohn, and Bacchus cheers up the lonely Ariadne with beer in the ballet by Roussel. Szymanowski, arr. Malcolm Hill: Agave Izabella Klosinska (soprano) Polish Radio Chorus Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Rameau: Suite (Nais) Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Frans Bruggen (conductor) Schubert: Der entsuhnte Orest, D699 Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Suite No 1 Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Jolivet: Chant de Linos Nikos Nikolopoulos (flute) Mendelssohn: Antigone Kreon ...... Dominique Horwitz (narrator) Antigone ...... Anna Franziska Srna (narrator) Ismene ...... Anne Berg (narrator) Wachter/Bote/Diener ...... Nikolaus Okonkwo (narrator) Teiresias ...... Tilo Pruckner (narrator) Hamon ...... Simon Zigah (narrator) MDR Men's Chorus MDR Symphony Orchestra Jun Markl (conductor) Barber: Medea Suite Members of the Diamond Ensemble and Trio Ondine Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Suite No 2 French National Orchestra James Conlon (conductor).