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Edward Seckerson revisits some of the recordings that have been recommended in CD Review's Building a Library during the past season. Including:
Ravel String Quartet Petersen Quartet Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43 Rafael Orozco (piano), RPO, conductor Edo de Waart

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Piano:
Rafael Orozco

Alfreda Hodgson. 1: Hilary Finch with the first of two programmes exploring the career of mezzo Alfreda Hodgson.
Including an excerpt from Bach's StJohn Passion conducted by Benjamin Britten , songs from Vaughan Williams 's The House of Life, from Schubert's Schwanengesang and Brahms's Four Serious Songs, and an excerpt from Mozart's Requiem.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfreda Hodgson.
Unknown:
Hilary Finch
Unknown:
Alfreda Hodgson.
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

Richard Hayman and his Orchestra play a medley from Romberg's The Student
Prince, Eric Parkin plays Summer Breezes and the Prague PO, conducted by Gavin Sutherland , plays Jean Gabriel-Marie 's Suite Provençale: Mireio.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Hayman
Unknown:
Eric Parkin
Conducted By:
Gavin Sutherland
Unknown:
Jean Gabriel-Marie

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
This Proms season's theme of Greek myths opens with Michael Tippett's tragic opera about the Trojan king whose decision to re-adopt his abandoned son Paris leads to his own death and the ruin of all Troy. Presented by Sarah Walker.

BBC Singers, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor David Atherton

Act 1

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Composer:
Michael Tippett
Singers:
BBC Singers
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
David Atherton
Priam:
David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone)
Hecuba/Athene:
Elizabeth Connell (soprano)
Andromache/Hera:
Susan Bickley (mezzo)
Helen/Aphrodite:
Susan Parry (mezzo)
Paris:
Marcel Reijans (tenor)
Hector:
William Dazeley (baritone)
Achilles:
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Patroclus:
Stephen Roberts (baritone)
Hermes:
Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Nurse:
Christine Rice (mezzo)
Young Guard:
Christopher Gillett (tenor)
Old Man:
Stephen Richardson (bass)
Paris, a boy:
James Eager (treble)

A play by Phyllis Nagy based on Euripides's Andromache. Delores has taken sanctuary in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Big Nicky has left her and is now living with Angie, the daughter of a gangland boss. But Angie reckons that Delores has put a spell on her.
Director Jeremy Mortimer

Contributors

Play By:
Phyllis Nagy
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Delores:
Nichola McAullffe
Gloria:
Madeleine Potter
Angie:
Katherine Tozer
Sal d'Angelo:
Oliver Cotton
Frank:
William Hope
Old Paulie:
Nicholas Le Prevost

With Susan Sharpe.

J.C.F. Fischer Mass: Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland

12.20 Cornelius Dopper Symphony No 7 (Zuiderzee)

1.00 Barber Agnus Dei Elgar Serenade in E minor for strings Mozart, compl. Sussmayr Mass in D minor, K626 (Requiem)

2.10 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20

2.40 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor

3.20 Chausson Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer, Op 19

3.45 Tournemire Choral Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali

3.55 Francisco de laTorre Justa Fue Mi Perdition

4.05 Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op 46: No 1 in C; No 2 in E minor

4.15 Brahms, orch Schmeling Two Hungarian Dances

4.20 Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

4.30 Leslie Pearson Dance Suite after Arbeau

4.40 Part The Woman with the Alabaster Box

4.50 Nielsen Sunset; In the Seraglio Garden; Irmelin Rose (Five Songs, Op 4)

5.00 Handel Overture: Agrippina

5.05 Bach Fugue (Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV1001)

5.10 Cipriano de Rore O Sonno

5.15 Fran Lhotka Fresco Paintings

5.25 Haydn Andante and Variations in F minor, H XVII 6

5.35 Delius, ed Fenby La Calinda (Koanga) (concert version)

5.40 Bridge Three Pieces

5.55 Stanford The Bluebird, Op 119 No

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

BBC Radio 3

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