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Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Holst - At the Boar's Head

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28/01/2016

Holst - At the Boar's Head

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Holst's At the Boar's Head, a one-act opera using scenes from Shakespeare's Henry IV.

Penny Gore presents a performance of Holst's one-act opera At the Boar's Head, a work combining folk tunes with scenes from Shakespeare's Henry IV.

In the run up to Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, Penny Gore presents today's Thursday Opera Matinee: At the Boar's Head by Gustav Holst - his one-act opera combining folk tunes with scenes from Shakespeare's Henry IV.

While convalescing from an illness, Holst had been reading both Henry IV, Part I, and an edition of John Playford's The English Dancing Master. He noticed similarities between the metre of Shakespeare's lines and the rhythms of tunes in the Playford collection and he decided to incorporate the two into an opera.

Plus more from this week's featured ensemble, the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 

Holst: At the Boar's Head, Op.42

Prince Hal ..... Philip Langridge (tenor)
Falstaff ..... John Tomlinson(bass)
Hostess (Mistress Quickly) ..... Elise Ross (soprano)
Doll Tearsheet ..... Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
Pistol ..... David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Peto ..... Peter Hall (tenor)
Bardolph ..... Richard Suart (baritone)
Ponis ..... Michael George (bass)
Men's Voices of the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor David Atherton

Followed by

c. 2.55pm
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op.64
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

c. 4pm
Astor Piazzolla
Sinfonia Buenos Aires Op.15
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor).

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