5/5. Return to Paris. Donald Macleod looks at Rossini's period of recovery from persistent ill-health during the final years of his life in Paris, and the remarkable works he dismissed as his
"sins of old age".
L'Ultimo Ricordo; Musique Anodine , Setting 2 (Peches des Vieillesse, Books land 13) Steven Kimbrough (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano) Assez de Memento: Dansons; Un Cauchemar (Peches des Vieillesse, Books 6 and 7) Frederic Chiu (piano)
Prélude Religieux; Sanctus; 0 Salutaris Hostia; Agnus Dei (Petite Messe Solennelle)
Lucia Popp (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Nicolai Gedda (tenor),
Dimitri Kavrakos (bass), Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos), David Briggs (harmonium), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight