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Penny Gore presents music inspired by philosophy and philosophers. Featuring works by Monteverdi, Lutyens and Tipett. Plus Leeds Pianothon 2009 highlights.

Penny Gore presents music inspired by philosophy and philosophers.

Monteverdi uses the death of the philosopher Seneca as the model against which to judge the Roman Emperor Nero, while Elisabeth Lutyens' remarkable setting of Ludwig Wittgenstein's masterpiece of logical philosophy contrasts with Michael Tippett's moving and uplifting oratorio A Child of Our Time.

Monteverdi: Seneca's death (The Coronation of Poppea)
Liberto ...... Lars Johansson Brissman (baritone)
Seneca ...... Lars Arvidson (bass)
Nero ...... Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano)
Lucano ...... Thomas Walker (tenor)
Drottningholm Court Orchestra
Mark Tatlow (conductor)

Lutyens: Excerpta tractatus-logico philosophici (Wittgenstein Motet)
成人快手 Singers
James Wood (conductor)

2.30pm
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Jill Gomez (soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Kenneth Woollam (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
成人快手 Symphony Chorus
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

3.45pm
Highlights from Radio 3's 2009 Leeds Pianothon, a celebration of amateur piano playing which took place at the Clothworkers Concert Hall at the University of Leeds.

Mary Ann from Preston
JS Bach: Fantasia in C minor (from Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 906)

Peter Foster from Weatley, Oxfordshire
Messiaen: Premier Communion de la Vierge (no. 11 of Vingt Regards sur l鈥檈nfant J茅sus)

2 hours

Broadcast

  • Wed 16 Sep 2009 14:00