In Tune - 19/05/2009 Scottish Opera and Opera North

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, featuring an opera double-bill. With director Renaud Doucet and soprano Anne Sophie Duprels discussing Scottish Opera's forthcoming production of Massenet's Manon - the first time the opera has been seen in Scotland. And ahead of Opera North's new adaptation of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, Sean talks to director Tim Hopkins and soprano Kate Valentine. 17:03 MASSENET Manon (Minuet) Orchestra of La Monnaie Antonio Pappano (conductor) EMI 557005 2 CD 2 Tr.ack1 2’09 17:05 RACHMANINOV Preludes in E flat & C minor, Op.23 (nos. 7 & 8) Steven Osborne (piano) HYPERION CDA 67700 Track 7-8 5’45 17:12 MASSENET Manon (Act 1: Je suis encor [sic] tout etourdie…) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) Orchestra of La Monnaie Antonio Pappano (conductor) EMI 557005 2 CD 1 Track 8 3’18 17:22 MASSENET Manon (Act 3: Gavotte) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) Orchestra of La Monnaie Antonio Pappano (conductor) EMI 557005 2 CD 2 Track 9 3’08 17:30 MASSENET Manon (Act 3, scene 2: N’est-ce plus ma main) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) Roberto Alagna (tenor) Orchestra of La Monnaie Antonio Pappano (conductor) EMI 557005 2 CD 2 Track 29 3’35 17:35 MAHLER Blumine (originally from Symphony no.1) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Paavo Jarvi (conductor) VIRGIN WHITE LABEL Track 3 7’16 NEW RELEASE 17.45.54 ALBINONI Sonata in G (Op.2 no.1) Ensemble 415 Chiara Banchini (director) ZIG ZAG ZZT 090202 Tracks 17-20 8’15 17:49’45 RAHUL DEV BURMAN Pyar Hua Chupke Se BBC Concert Orchestra Kavita Krishnamurti (singer) Kuljit Bhamra (tabla) Robert Ziegler (conductor) 4’11 17:56 PURCELL Suite No.3 in G major (Courante) Richard Egarr (harpsichord) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907428 Track 13 2’04 18:04 MAW Violin concerto: opening Joshua Bell (violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra Roger Norrington (conductor) SONY SK 62856 Track 1 2’55 18:13 MAW Life studies: Study III Academy of St Martin in the Fields Neville Marriner (director) CONTINUUM CDD 1030 Track 3 3’54 18:18 MOZART Abduction of the Seraglio (Act 1: Ach ich liebte, war so glucklich! Ah, I was in love) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) Zurich Opera Mozart Orchestra Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) TELDEC 8 43924 Track 6 5’40 18:31 MOZART Abduction of the Seraglio (Act 2: Vivat bacchus – bacchus lebe) Wilfried Gamlich (tenor) Matti Salminen (bass) Zurich Opera Mozart Orchestra conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt TELDEC 8 43924 Tr. 10 2’15 18:37 MOZART Abduction of the Seraglio (Act 2: Martern aller Artern, Tortures of all kinds) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) Zurich Opera Mozart Orchestra Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) TELDEC 8 43924 Track 10’21 18:49 SZYMANOWSKI Romance in D Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cedric Tiberghien (piano) HYPERION CDA 67703 Track 6 6’04 18:56 STANFORD O mistress mine; The rain it raineth every day (from The Clown’s songs from Twelfth Night, Op.65) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano) HYPERION CDA 67124 Track 2 & 4 3’00