with Susan Sharpe.
1.00pm Opera Matinee Herodiade
Massenet's grand opera on the story of Salome, in a Vienna State Opera performance with Placido Domingo as the Baptist. Based on a short story by Flaubert, the opera retells the devastating biblical tale of Herod's erotic obsession with Salome, and her love for the captive John the Baptist. The final crucial player in the drama is
Herodias, Herod's second wife and (it emerges)
Salome's mother. It is this discovery that triggers the opera's tragic and bloody conclusion.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, conductor Marcello Viotti
3.30 Flanders Trumpet Choir
Monteverdi Toccata (Orfeo) Scheidt Canzon cornetto
Biber Sonata
Altenburg Concerto in C Schmidt Variants
Lo Presti Suite
Steadman Delta IV
Camilleri Alka
Lassus My heart to thee now makes its plea Manneke Caccia
Landeghem Aquarioso
Jan van Landeghem (organ) Randers Trumpet Choir, director Alain Roelant
4.25 Debussy
Nocturnes
Netherlands Radio Choir
(women's voices)
Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
FAIREST ISLE
4.55 An Outside View with Ravi Shankar. Producer Susan Kenyon