Episode 2
Asian-influenced music plus pieces inspired by poetry. With Debussy: Pagodes (Estampes). Roussel: Padmavati. Trojahn: Ariosi. Plus works by Vicentino and Monteverdi.
Music by Western composers looking East to Asia, plus pieces inspired by poetry. Including works from two French composers, as well as music based on the poetry of Petrarch and Michelangelo from a German and two radical Italians.
Debussy: Pagodes (Estampes)
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Debussy: La demoiselle elue
Laura Aikin (soprano)
Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano)
MDR Radio Chorus
MDR Symphony Orchestra
Jun Markl (conductor)
2.30pm
Manfred Trojahn: Ariosi
Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano)
Sabine Meyer (bass clarinet)
MDR Symphony Orchestra
Jun Markl (conductor)
2.50pm
Vicentino: Laura che il verde lauro
Weser-Renaissance, Bremen
Manfred Cordes (director)
Monteverdi arr Mark Steinberg: Madrigals (Sixth Book - 1614)
Brentano Quartet
3.05pm
Roussel: Padmavati
Padmavati, Queen of Chitor ...... Sylvie Brunet (contralto)
Ratan-Sen, her husband ...... Finnur Bjarnasson (tenor)
Alaouddin (Aladdin), Sultan of the Moghuls ...... Alain Fondary (baritone)
The Brahmin ...... Yann Beuron (tenor)
Gora, administrator of the palace ...... Laurent Alvaro (baritone)
Badal, Ratan-Sen's envoy ...... Francois Piolino (tenor)
Nakamti, a young woman from Chitor ...... Blandine Folio Peres (mezzo-soprano)
The Watchman ...... Alain Gabriel (tenor)
A Priest ...... Jean-Vincent Blot (bass)
Theatre du Chatelet Chorus
Stephen Betteridge (director)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor).
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- Tue 12 May 2009 14:00成人快手 Radio 3