Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Including Mendelssohn's Overture - War March of the Priests (Athalie); Purcell's The Fairy Queen (Act 4), Grieg's Peer Gynt (Incidental Music) and Warlock's The Curlew.

With Sarah Walker.

Including:

Mendelssohn: Overture; War March of the Priests (Athalie, Op 74)
Vienna Philharmonic
Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Act 4)
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
Michael Chance (countertenor)
Laurence Dale (tenor)
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Anthony Michaels-Moore (bass)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Concentus Musicus Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Grieg: Peer Gynt (Incidental Music)
Ilse Hollweg (soprano)
Beecham Choral Society
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham (conductor)

Warlock: The Curlew
Ian Partridge (tenor)
The Music Group of London

Herrmann: Prelude and Rooftop; Scene d'Amour (soundtrack from the film Vertigo)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Joel McNeely (conductor).

2 hours

Last on

Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:00

Broadcast

  • Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:00