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Britten - Billy Budd (live, ENO)

August 7, 2016, 6:46 am
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Britten 100: Billy Budd

Opera on 3



Presented by Tom Service.



Starting our broadcasts of all of Benjamin Britten's operas in this, his centenary year, is a new production of Billy Budd, recorded last year at the English National Opera in London. Director David Alden sets the events at the HMS Indomitable, based on Herman Melville's novella, in a claustrophobic and dark world where good and evil, innocence and betrayal clash with tragic consequences. Edward Gardner conducts a stellar cast, including the debut of Benedict Nelson in the title role, the ever pure and charismatic, but eventually doomed young sailor; Kim Begley as the tormented Captain Vere, seeking redemption from his moral dilemma, and Matthew Rose as the evil Master-at-Arms Claggart, who masterminds Billy's unfair downfall.



Billy Budd .... Benedict Nelson (baritone)

Captain Vere .... Kim Begley (tenor)

Claggart .... Matthew Rose (bass)

Mr Redburn .......
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Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, Yefim Bronfman

August 7, 2016, 4:20 pm
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

Performer: Yefim Bronfman

Orchestra: New York Philharmonic (2013/4 season)

Conductor: Alan Gilbert



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Beethoven - Concerto in D major Op.61 for violin and orchestra (live, Augustin Hadelich)

August 8, 2016, 12:52 am
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Recorded on Saturday 9 February at Leeds Town Hall.



German violinist Augustin Hadelich makes his debut with the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier, in Beethoven's lyrical Violin Concerto.



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Prokofiev Piano Concertos 1 and 4 (live, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

August 8, 2016, 1:21 am
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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 4





Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)



Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet makes his Bridgewater Hall debut to get under the skin of Prokofiev's ferocious piano concertos. He performs not just the youthful First Concerto, but the sensational Fourth too, written for the left hand.



Recorded at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on Saturday 3 November 2012





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Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (live)

August 8, 2016, 2:04 am
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Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov

Afternoon on 3, Thursday Opera Matinee



John Shea presents the Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Tugan Sokhiev in today's opera matinee: continuing the week's Russian theme with Mussorgsky's masterpiece Boris Godunov. There's something rotten in the state of Russia: Boris Godunov, sung by the Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, is a ruthless Tsar who seizes the Russian throne after murdering the rightful heir. Can he enjoy the spoils of his crime?



Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov

Boris Godunov ..... Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass),

Fyodor, his son ... Stephanie Houtzeel (mezzo-soprano),

Xenia, Boris's daughter ... Ileana Tonca (soprano),

Xenia's nurse ... Aura Twarowska (contralto),

Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky ..... Jorma Silvasti (tenor),

Andrey Shchelkalov, Clerk of the Duma ... Eijiro Kai (baritone),

Pimen, chronicler-hermit ... Kurt Rydl (bass),

The Pretender under the name...
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Verdi, Macbeth (live, ROH, 2011)

August 8, 2016, 7:44 am
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Verdi 200: Macbeth

Katie Derham presents the highly acclaimed 2011 Royal Opera House production of the first of Verdi's three Shakespeare-inspired operas.



When witches prophesy that Macbeth will be made thane of Cawdor and eventually King of Scotland, they unleash in him a turmoil of anticipation and misery. But Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband's uncertainty. She covets the kingship for him and is prepared to go to any length to obtain it.



Verdi: Macbeth



Macbeth ..... Simon Keenlyside (baritone)

Lady Macbeth ..... Liudmyla Monastyrska (soprano)

Banquo ..... Raymond Aceto (bass)

Macduff ..... Dmitri Pittas (tenor)

Malcolm ..... Steven Ebel (tenor)

Lady-In-Waiting ..... Elizabeth Meister (soprano)



Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Antonio Pappano (conductor).





The file ‘Commentary after Act II’ contains a guide to the opera...
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Rossini - William Tell (live, ROH)

August 10, 2016, 3:05 am
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Rossini's Guillaume Tell

Opera on 3



Live from the Royal Opera House in London, Rossini's last opera, and one of his greatest masterpieces, Guillaume Tell, with Gerald Finley in the heroic title role, Malin Byström as Mathilde, John Osborn as Arnold, and Nicolas Courjal as Gesler. Set in Austrian-occupied Switzerland in the Middle Ages and based on Friedrich Schiller's play, the opera is an ode to the fight against oppression and tyranny. Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the choir and orchestra of the Royal Opera House in a new production by Damiano Michieletto, who makes his debut in the main Covent Garden stage. Ivan Hewett presents.



Guillaume Tell.....Gerald Finley (Bass-Baritone)

Arnold Melcthal.....John Osborn (Tenor)

Mathilde.....Malin Byström (Soprano)

Walther Furst.....Alexander Vinogradov (Bass)

Jemmy.....Sofia Fomina (Soprano)

Hedwige.....Enkelejda Shkosa (Mezzo-soprano)

Gesler.....Nicolas Courjal (Bass)
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Mozart - The Magic Flute (live, ROH)

August 10, 2016, 2:15 pm
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Mozart's Die Zauberflote

Opera on 3



From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mary King presents a revival of David McVicar's acclaimed production of Die Zauberflote, with a stellar cast including Christiane Karg, Pavol Breslik and Markus Werba. Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night has been captured by Sarastro. On seeing a picture of her, Tamino resolves to rescue her, with only a magic flute, and a somewhat unhelpful birdcatcher called Papageno to help him. Mozart's late, great singspiel combines the serious and the comic, with pantomime and Freemasonry thrown in for good measure. Writer and musicologist Gavin Plumley joins Mary to discuss this operatic hybrid, and what we know of the performance conditions of the original production in 1791.



Presented by Mary King



Tamino.....Pavol Breslik (Tenor)

Pamina.....Christiane Karg (Soprano)

Papageno.....Markus Werba (Baritone)

Papagena.....Lauren Fagan (Soprano)
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Rossini - Le Comte Ory (live from the Met)

August 12, 2016, 12:49 am
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***** This was originally broadcast on BBC Radio Three as an integrated programme of opera and commentary. I have separated each act of the opera into individual files, encoded as 320kbps .mp3, with fades at end. The commentary is coded as 96kbps .mp3. I converted to .mp3 from .m4a (the format the excellent Get iPlayer Automator’ app uses to download from the BBC). This seems to me to be the best way to ensure wide playability/flexibility for downloaders. But if other formats are preferred I can change my approach; leave a comment on the file at Extratorrent.cc ******



Rossini's Le Comte Ory

Opera on 3, Live from the Met



Rossini's comic opera Le Comte Ory live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.



Count Ory is determined to win the countess Adele, and will do anything to get access to the castle where the women are, including disguising himself and his men as nuns. Rossini's sparkling comedy, premiered in the 2011-12 season,...
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BBC Proms 2016 - Prom 02 Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov

August 13, 2016, 4:07 pm
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Live at BBC Proms: The Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Antonio Pappano perform Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with soloists including Bryn Terfel.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley



7.30pm

Mussorgsky Boris Godunov (original version, 1869)

(concert performance; sung in Russian)



Boris Godunov.....Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)

Fyodor....Benjamin Knight (treble)

Xenia....Vlada Borovko (soprano)

Shuisky....John Graham-Hall (tenor)

Shchelkalov.....Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone)

Pimen.....Ain Anger (bass)

Grigory (Pretender Dmitry).....David Butt Philip (tenor)

Varlaam.....Andrii Goniukov (bass)

Missail.....Harry Nicoll (tenor)

Innkeeper.....Rebecca de Pont Davies (mezzo-soprano)

Yurodivy (Holy Fool).....Andrew Tortise (tenor)

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

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BBC Proms 2016 - Prom 03 - Mozart, Haydn, Faure

August 13, 2016, 5:43 pm
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Prom 03: Mozart, Haydn and Faure

BBC Proms, 2016



The Choir of King's College Cambridge joins forces with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for music including Fauré's Requiem and Haydn's Mass in Time of War.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch



Mozart: Exultate, Jubilate

Haydn: Mass in C major 'Paukenmesse'

Fauré: Pavane; Cantique de Jean Racine; Requiem



Lucy Crowe (soprano)

Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano)

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)



In a Prom of choral classics the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, follows intricate sacred works by Mozart and Haydn with the radiant serenity of Fauré, whose Requiem radiates stillness and spirituality.

The King's choristers are joined by leading vocal soloists...
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BBC Proms 2016 - Prom 04 Ravel, Rachmaninov, Ustvolskaya and Strauss

August 13, 2016, 6:15 pm
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Prom 04: Ravel, Rachmaninov, Ustvolskaya and Strauss

BBC Proms, 2016



Valery Gergiev and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra play Ravel, Ustvolskaya and Strauss. Behzod Abduraimov is the soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London



Ravel: Boléro

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor

Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphony No 3 'Jesus Messiah, save us!'

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite



Behzod Abduraimov, piano

Alexei Petrenko, reciter

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, conductor



Valery Gergiev and his Munich Philharmonic Orchestra open with Ravel's hypnotic Boléro and close with a suite from Richard Strauss's waltz-filled opera Der Rosenkavalier.



In between, Galina Ustvolskaya's Symphony No. 3 pleads for redemption on raw brass and winds.



Young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov - winner of the 2009...
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BBC Proms 2016 - Beethoven, Missa Solemnis

August 14, 2016, 11:07 am
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Prom 05: Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

BBC Proms, 2016



Live at BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda in Beethoven's Missa solemnis



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch



Beethoven: Missa solemnis



Camilla Nylund (soprano)

Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano)

Stuart Skelton (tenor)

Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass)

Hallé Choir

Manchester Chamber Choir

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda



In 1819 Ludwig van Beethoven was stirred by a new creative energy. Sketched over the next four years, on specially enlarged sheets of paper, was the work Beethoven himself came to admire above all others: his grand solemn mass, the Missa solemnis. Using every means of musical imagery available, Beethoven demonstrated his supreme mastery of the orchestral-choral model in this musical glimpse of heaven. The BBC Philharmonic, along with the Hallé Choir...
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BBC Proms 2016 - Prom 07 Faure, Stravinsky and Poulenc

August 15, 2016, 1:46 am
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Live at BBC Proms: Marc Minkowski conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Poulenc's Stabat Mater, Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Fauré's Shylock.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London



Fauré: Shylock

Stravinsky:Pulcinella Suite

Poulenc: Stabat Mater



Julie Fuchs, soprano

Julien Behr, tenor

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Marc Minkowski conductor



Paris was at the centre of the quest for new clarity and order in music around the start of the 20th century, and tonight's Prom presents some of the most delicious fruits of that quest. Our Shakespeare anniversary celebrations continue with a suite drawn from Fauré's incidental music for The Merchant of Venice.



In his ballet score Pulcinella, Stravinsky dusted down Baroque melodies then believed to be by Pergolesi, lending them an ear-teasing bite.



Spare simplicity and urbane wit usually meet in the works of...
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BBC Proms 2016 - Prom 11, Wagner and Tippett

August 16, 2016, 5:24 pm
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Prom 11: Wagner and Tippett

BBC Proms, 2016



Live at BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Mark Wigglesworth perform the final scene of Wagner's opera Die Walküre and Tippett's A Child of Our Time.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Donald Macleod



Wagner: Die Walküre - final scene

Tippett: A Child of Our Time



Tamara Wilson (soprano)

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)

Peter Hoare (tenor)

James Creswell (bass)

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

Mark Wigglesworth conductor





Also:- Proms Extra



Martin Handley is joined by Oliver Soden and Jessica Williams to introduce Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time and discuss the life and work of the composer. A Proms Extra event recorded at the Imperial College Union in London.



As Europe slipped towards Fascism, Michael Tippett felt solidarity with the...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 09 - Mozart, Mendelssohn

August 16, 2016, 5:27 pm
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Prom 09: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

BBC Proms, 2016



Live at BBC Proms: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, conductor Jérémie Rhorer and soprano Rosa Feola in symphonies and concert arias by Mozart and Mendelssohn.



Mozart: Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K543

Mendelssohn: Concert aria 'Infelice'

Mozart: Concert aria 'Ah, lo previdi', K272

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A major, 'Italian'

Mozart: Le Nozze de Figaro, Overture



Rosa Feola, soprano

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

conductor Jérémie Rhorer



Jérémie Rhorer's energetic period-instrument ensemble makes its Proms debut along with fast-rising soprano Rosa Feola. The orchestra opens with Mozart's vigorous Symphony No. 39, the first of the composer's final trilogy.



Just like Mozart, Mendelssohn had an uncanny way of balancing head and heart in complex musical arguments, as heard in the thrusting brilliance of his Fourth Symphony, the...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 12 - Ten Pieces II

August 17, 2016, 5:22 pm
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BBC Proms, 2016, Prom 12 - Ten Pieces II Prom



Live at the BBC Proms: The Ten Pieces II Prom with the BBC Philharmonic and Alpesh Chauhan brings live performances of this music, chosen specially for secondary-school pupils to the Proms.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London



Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill



Part I

J S Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 (Scherzo)

Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (third movement)

Bizet: Carmen - Habanera and Toreador Song

Verdi: Requiem - Dies irae and Tuba mirum



Part II

Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra (5th movement)

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (extract)

Anna Clyne: Night Ferry

Wagner: Die Walküre - Ride of the Valkyries

Bernstein: West Side Story - Mambo





Naomi Wilkinson (presenter)

Lemn Sissay (presenter)

DJ Mr Switch...
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BBC Proms 2016 - Prom 13, Beethoven, Symphony No.9

August 17, 2016, 5:23 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 13 - Beethoven, Symphony No 9



Live at BBC Proms: Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with its concluding "Ode to Joy". Plus a world premiere by Magnus Lindberg.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly



Magnus Lindberg: Two Episodes (world premiere)

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor ('Choral')



Miah Persson (soprano),

Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano),

John Daszak (tenor),

Christopher Purves (bass),

London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra,

Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).



Beethoven helped change the European musical landscape but in his final symphony he imagined the most startling transformation of all: from a brutal, joyless world to one of uplifting and embracing brotherhood. He did it by writing his most vivid music yet and employing a chorus, proclaiming Friedrich Schiller's...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 14 - Rossini, The Barber of Seville

August 17, 2016, 5:25 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 14, Rossini's The Barber of Seville



Live from BBC Proms: Rossini's Barber of Seville, with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducted by Enrique Mazzola and starring Danielle de Niese as Rosina.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley



Rosina ..... Danielle de Niese (soprano)

Dr Bartolo ..... Alessandro Corbelli (baritone)

Count Almaviva .....Taylor Stayton (tenor)

Figaro ..... Björn Bürger (baritone)

Berta ..... Janis Kelly (soprano)

Fiorello ..... Huw Montague Rendall (baritone)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Enrique Mazzola, conductor



Glyndebourne makes its annual visit to the Proms, bringing the ultimate comic opera. Rossini wrote The Barber of Seville 200 years ago, reportedly in a period of just three weeks, his head spinning with the joy and wit he discovered in the story of the wily hairdresser...
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 15 - Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Vaughan Williams

August 18, 2016, 5:53 pm
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BBC Proms 2016, Prom 15 - Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Vaughan Williams



Live at BBC Proms: Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Vaughan Williams and a new work by Anthony Payne. And Ray Chen plays Bruch's Violin Concerto.





Tchaikovsky: The Tempest

Anthony Payne: Of Land, Sea and Sky (BBC commission: world premiere)

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor

Nicolò Paganini, Caprice No.21

Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region



Ray Chen, violin

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor



Vaughan Williams's Toward the Unknown Region was his first large-scale masterpiece, setting the visionary words of Walt Whitman. Sir Andrew Davis also conducts Tchaikovsky's swashbuckling The Tempest and the world premiere of Anthony Payne's Of Land, Sea and Sky, with texts by Payne himself which reference nature and the Somme. Bruch's radiant First...
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