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Composer of the Week: Barber

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

5/5. Donald Macleod introduces works from
Barber's final years, including part of the opera written with his partner Gian Carlo Menotti.
To Be Sung on the Water (Two Songs, Op 42 No 2) Oregon Repertory Singers, conductor Gilbert Seeley Vanessa, Act 1
BBC Singers, BBCSO, conductor Leonard Slatkin Piano Concerto John Browning ,
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Georg Szell Canzonetta Julia Girdwood (oboe), Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jose Serebrier
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Gian Carlo Menotti.
Conductor:
Gilbert Seeley
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
John Browning
Conductor:
Georg Szell
Oboe:
Canzonetta Julia Girdwood
Conductor:
Jose Serebrier
Vanessa:
Christine Brewer (soprano)
The old baroness:
Catherine Wyn-Roqers (mezzo)
Erika:
Susan Graham (mezzo)
Anatol:
William Burden (tenor)
The old doctor:
Neal Davies (bass-Baritone)
Source: Radio Times

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