Afternoon on 3 - Looking East - Episode 2

Music by Western composers looking East to Asia, plus pieces inspired by poetry. Including works from two French composers, as well as music based on the poetry of Petrarch and Michelangelo from a German and two radical Italians. Debussy: Pagodes (Estampes) Emanuel Ax (piano) Debussy: La demoiselle elue Laura Aikin (soprano) Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano) MDR Radio Chorus MDR Symphony Orchestra Jun Markl (conductor) 2.30pm Manfred Trojahn: Ariosi Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano) Sabine Meyer (bass clarinet) MDR Symphony Orchestra Jun Markl (conductor) 2.50pm Vicentino: Laura che il verde lauro Weser-Renaissance, Bremen Manfred Cordes (director) Monteverdi arr Mark Steinberg: Madrigals (Sixth Book - 1614) Brentano Quartet 3.05pm Roussel: Padmavati Padmavati, Queen of Chitor ...... Sylvie Brunet (contralto) Ratan-Sen, her husband ...... Finnur Bjarnasson (tenor) Alaouddin (Aladdin), Sultan of the Moghuls ...... Alain Fondary (baritone) The Brahmin ...... Yann Beuron (tenor) Gora, administrator of the palace ...... Laurent Alvaro (baritone) Badal, Ratan-Sen's envoy ...... Francois Piolino (tenor) Nakamti, a young woman from Chitor ...... Blandine Folio Peres (mezzo-soprano) The Watchman ...... Alain Gabriel (tenor) A Priest ...... Jean-Vincent Blot (bass) Theatre du Chatelet Chorus Stephen Betteridge (director) Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Lawrence Foster (conductor).