WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24

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Evening at the Opera: Barry Gold: Voices Without Borders: “Five Tenors”
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Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792).
Chantal Santon (sopraan), Georg Poplutz (tenor),
Werner Ehrhardt (dirigent), Bonner Kammerchor, L’ Arte del Mondo. (1 hr., 18 min.)

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Les Essentiels
Par François-Xavier Szymczak

Désormais directeur musical du Royal Opera House de Londres, Solti dirige Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Montserrat Caballé ou Placido Domingo, faisant escale en France pour emmener l'Orchestre de Paris dans la Mephisto Valse de Franz Liszt

L'équipe
François-Xavier Szymczak
Camille Joste
Attaché(e) de production (1 hr., 30 min.)

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Stars du classique
Par Aurélie Moreau

Dame Felicity Lott, célèbre soprano britannique qui nous a quittés récemment, s’est illustrée par des interprétations exceptionnelles de Richard Strauss, Mozart, Offenbach et du répertoire français, où sa finesse d’esprit faisait merveille.

Avec
Aurélie Moreau
Productrice

L'équipe
Aurélie Moreau
Productrice
Cécile Bonnet des Claustres
Attaché(e) de production
Yuthou-Diego Hak-Lopes
Mise en onde (1 hr., 30 min.)

Donald Macleod explores the changing role of Purcell within the royal household, and the music he wrote for the various monarchs who ruled during his lifetime.

Henry Purcell was the most important English composer of the era, described as the "Orpheus Britannicus" for his ability to combine Baroque counterpoint with dramatic settings of English words. He composed music for the church, the royal court, the theatre and for England’s newly emerging concert scene, with an intelligence and creativity that marked him out as one of the most original composers in all of Europe. More than anything, though, he composed music for London – the city where he lived all of his short life. Over the course of this week, Donald Macleod explores the city during Purcell’s lifetime and London’s effect on a man who lays claim to being England’s greatest composer. During Purcell’s childhood, it was a city reeling from civil war, the disastrous spread of disease, and the destruction wreaked by the Great Fire. We’ll explore London’s churches, and music Purcell wrote for them, especially Westminster Abbey, where Purcell was organist, the state of London’s theatre scene in Purcell’s day, and the changing demands for music from the various monarchs of the composer’s lifetime. Finally, Donald explores London’s response to the shock of Purcell’s death in his mid-30s, and the tributes paid to the composer from his own Fairest Isle.

In Wednesday’s episode, Donald explores the changing role of Purcell within the royal household, and the music he wrote for the various monarchs who ruled during his lifetime. We’ll hear of a traumatic royal journey on the recently thawed Thames, and visit a haunted Whitehall, Kensington Palace, and hear of a money-making scheme Purcell implemented for the Coronations at Westminster Abbey, and its mixed success!

Cold Song ‘What Power art Thou’ (from King Arthur)
Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Accademia Bizantina
Stefano Montanari, conductor

They that go down to the sea in ships
David Thomas, bass
Matthew Bright, alto
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, director

Sighs for our late sovereign Charles the Second, Z 380 ‘If pray’rs and tears’
Gerard Lesne, countertenor
Il Seminario Musicale

My heart is inditing
Choir of New College Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music
Edward Higginbottom, conductor

Sefauchi's Farewell, Z 656
John Gibbons, harpsichord

Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind, Z 331 (VI May Her Blessed Example Chase)
Neil MacKenzie, tenor
Symphony of Harmony and Invention
Harry Christophers, director

Come ye sons of art (excerpt)
James Bowman, countertenor
Christopher Robson, countertenor
David Wilson-Johnson, baritone
Michael George, bass
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Gustav Leonhardt, director

Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Audio Wales & West (1 hr.)

SPECIAL PROGRAM: Alessandro Scarlatti: Szent Teodózia mártíromsága

Kétrészes oratórium
Vez.: Eduardo López Banzo
Ea.: Belén Vaquero (szoprán), Bruno Campelo (kontratenor), Luken Munguira (tenor), Javier Blanco (basszus), Al Ayre Español Régizenei Együttes
(Úbeda, Szt. Jakab Ispotály, 2025. december 8.) (Ism. július 13., 19.35) (1 hr., 10 min.)

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Les Essentiels
Par François-Xavier Szymczak

Désormais directeur musical du Royal Opera House de Londres, Solti dirige Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Montserrat Caballé ou Placido Domingo, faisant escale en France pour emmener l'Orchestre de Paris dans la Mephisto Valse de Franz Liszt

L'équipe
François-Xavier Szymczak
Camille Joste
Attaché(e) de production (1 hr., 30 min.)

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Opera: Richard Wagner: Mistři pěvci Norimberští [Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg]
Premiéra se uskutečnila na den přesně před 158 lety
Hraje Staatskapelle Dresden, řídí Herbert von Karajan
Zpívají: Theo Adam, Helen Donath, Rene Kollo, Eberhard Büchner a Peter Schreier
Připravila Svatava Barančicová (4 hrs., 44 min.)