2/5. Radio 3 continues to celebrate Colin Davis's birthday with some of his work as music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Including Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro.
With Tom Service.
2/5. Radio 3 continues its celebration of Colin Davis's birthday with an example of his work as music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Mozart is a composer close to his heart, and we hear Act 2 from a 1971 performance of The Marriage of Figaro. This is followed by another of Davis's signature composers, Tippet, and we hear the world premiere of his Triple Concerto from the 1980 Proms season.
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Act 2)
Countess Almaviva ...... Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Count Almaviva ...... Victor Braun (baritone)
Figaro ...... Geraint Evans (baritone)
Susanna ...... Reri Grist (soprano)
Cherubino ...... Patricia Kern (mezzo-soprano)
Marcellina ...... Heather Begg (mezzo-soprano)
Bartolo ...... Noel Mangin (bass)
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
Tippett: Concerto for violin, viola, cello and orchestra
Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
Nobuko Imai (viola)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).
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