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Stephen Johnson fetes some of his musical namesakes. Not one of the great western composers was called Stephen but, as this rich musical anthology reveals, there are plenty of Stephens in music, even though Janacek's was drunk, Monteverdi's stoned and Shostakovich's lost his head altogether.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Johnson

live from Westminster Abbey. Introit: Up Good Christian Folk (Piae Cantiones); Responses: Aylewood;
Psalms: 119, vv 145-176 (Ouseley, Smart, Parratt, Buck); Lessons: Genesis 4, wl-10;Acts6,w8-15 and 7, v 55 to 8, v 1 (a); Office hymn: See amid the Winter's Snow (Goss); Canticles: Watson in E; Anthem: Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Vaughan Williams); Carol: Lullay
My Liking (Holst); Organ voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in B (Dupre). Organist and Master of the Choristers Martin Neary. Sub organist Andrew Lumsden.

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Neary.
Organist:
Andrew Lumsden.

Luciano Pavarotti 's first encounter with Verdi's
Moor of Venice, on CDs made at performances in Chicago and New York in April. (Sung in Italian)
(sop)(baritone) (tenor) (mezzo)(bass)(baritone) (tenor) (baritone)
Metropolitan Opera
Children's Chorus; Chicago SO and Chorus/Georg Solti

Contributors

Unknown:
Luciano Pavarotti
Desdemona:
Kiri Te Kanawa
lago:
Leo Nucci
Cassio:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Emilia:
Elzbieta Ardam
Lodovico:
Dimitri Kavrakos
Montana:
Alan Opie
Koderigo:
John Keyes
Herald:
Richard Cohn

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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