5/5. Death in Venice. Venice's air of melancholy and decay has captured the imaginations of literary giants such as Proust, Thomas Mann and Henry James. Donald Macleod follows the theme of Mann's novella and searches for
"death in Venice".
Offenbach Barcarolle (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) Jessye Norman (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Brussels Theatre Royal de la Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sylvain Cambreling Liszt La Lugubre Gondola Alfred Brendel (piano)
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles (excerpt) Susan Bickley (contralto),
New London Chamber Choir,
London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen Wagner Siegfried 's Death and Funeral March (Gotterdammerung)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan Prelude, Act 3: Tristan und Isolde
Berlin PO, conductor Daniel Barenboim Britten Death in Venice (excerpt)
Peter Pears (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight