In Tune - 02/10/2008
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With tenor William Dazeley and director Caroline Gawn discussing Opera North's production of Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing, and ahead of their 2008 UK tour, conductor Alex Ingram, soprano Donna Bateman and tenor Richard Roberts from English Touring Opera performing excerpts from Dvorak's Rusalka. Plus the launch of Radio 3's 2008 New Generation Artists Scheme. PLAYLIST 17:03 GERSHWIN Of thee I sing (Overture) Orchestra of St Lukes Michael Tilson Thomas Sony CBS M2K 42522 CD 1 Track 1 4’29 17:08 HANDEL Serse (Crude furie degl’ orridi abissi) Joyce DiDonato (mezzo soprano) Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset (conductor) Virgin 50999 519038 2 4 Track 1 3’37 17:13 SAINT-SAËNS Sonata for clarinet and piano (Molto allegro) Martin Fröst [clarinet] Roland Pöntinen (piano) BIS CD 693 Track 5 4’53 17:18 GERSHWIN Of thee I sing Larry Kert (Wintergreen) Maureen McGovern (Mary) New York Choral Artists Orchestra of St Lukes Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Sony CBS M2K 42522 CD 1 Track 9 2'05 17:24 GERSHWIN Of thee I sing (Finale: Act I) Larry Kert (Wintergreen) Paige O’Hara (Diana) New York Choral Artists Orchestra of St Lukes Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Sony CBS M2K 42522 CD 1 Track 11 2’23 17:31 GERSHWIN Trumpeter Blow your Golden Horn New York Choral Artists Orchestra of St Lukes Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Sony CBS M2K 42522 CD 1 Track 20 4’00 17:36 BRAHMS Hungarian Dances WoO1 Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Harmonia Mundi HMC 902015 Tracks 1, 4 & 10 9’16 17:50 LIVE DVORAK Terzetto (Scherzo) Jennifer Pike (violin) Tai Murray (violin) Maxim Rysanov (viola) 5’00 17:56 JEROME KERN The way you look tonight (extract) Gwilym Simcock (piano) Phil Donkin (double bass) Martin France (drums) Basho Records SRCD 24-2 Track 9 3’30 18:03 BACH orch. Elgar Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537/Op 86 Hallé Orchestra Mark Elder (conductor) CD HLL 7509 Track 10-11 8’43 18:12 STANFORD The Blue Bird Op 119 No 3 The Cambridge Singers John Rutter (conductor) Collegium CSCD 505 Track 1 3’57 18:17 LIVE DVORAK Song to the Moon from Rusalka Donna Bateman (Rusalka) Alex Ingram (piano) 5’23 18:28 BIZET Carmen (Flower song) David Curry (Don José) Alex Ingram (piano) 3’44 18:35’00 LIVE DVORAK Rusalka (Duet: Act 3) Donna Bateman (Rusalka) Richard Roberts (Prince) Alex Ingram (piano) 7’21 18:44 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major BWV1048 Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini (director) Warner 0927 48174-2 Tracks 5-7 10’39 18:55 WEISSENBERG Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Hyperion CDA 67656 Tracks 14, 18 & 16 4’12