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Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Act 3/Exile

Episode 4 of 4

Handel Operas 2009: Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's most popular opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Plus Exile: With Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2. Bartok: Viola Concerto.

Handel Operas 2009

As part of 成人快手 Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas, Jonathan Swain presents the third act of the composer's most popular - and arguably best - opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto.

Handel: Giulio Cesare in egitto (Act 3)

Giulio Cesare ...... Marijana Mijanovic (mezzo-soprano)
Cleopatra ...... Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)
Cornelia, widow of Caesar's enemy Pompey ...... Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano)
Sesto, her son ...... Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Tolomeo, Cleopatra's brother ...... Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Achilla, Tolomeo's sidekick ...... Alan Ewing (bass)
Nireno, Cleopatra's sidekick ...... Pascal Bertin (countertenor)
Curio, Caesar's sidekick ...... Jean-Michel Ankaoua (bass)
Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Plus Exile:

Jonathan Swain presents 成人快手 orchestras performing music with the theme of displacement, featuring composers who left their native countries.

Including works by Chopin and Heine - whose text Schumann set in his song cycle Dichterliebe - who knew each other in Paris in the 1820s, one being an exile from his Polish homeland, the other having fled from his Jewish birthright and German countrymen.

Plus a work by Bartok, who, because of the outbreak of the Second World War, fled Europe for America, where he was decidely unhappy. Ill-health and neglect led to his death in 1945, and he left behind an incomplete viola concerto.

3.05pm
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21
Louis Lortie (piano)
成人快手 Philharmonic
Michel Dworzynski (conductor)

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op 48
Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)
Michael Hampton (piano)

4.10pm
Bartok: Viola Concerto
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Ellin (conductor)

Gerhard: Don Quixote
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor).

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Fri 17 Apr 2009 14:00

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