3: Shakespeare Now Demands Thy Lays. Shakespeare was to the so-called English Mozarts what
Metastasian opera seria was to
Mozart. Roderick Swanston contrasts the differing responses of each to their changing theatrical traditions. Mozart Lucio Silla (Act 1, excerpt)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir,
Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bishop 0 Happy Fair!
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Bishop, arr Bush By the Simplicity of Venus' Doves
Paul Elliott (tenor),
Lena-Liis Kiesel (piano)
Unley A Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare (Part 2)
Lorna Anderson and Julia Gooding
(sopranos), Richard Wistreich (bass), Parley of Instruments Choir and Baroque Orchestra, conductor Paul Nicholson
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
SOUNDING THE CENTURY