Verdi, Gershwin, Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Episode b098n7fm, broadcast at Thursday 19th October 2017, 7:00pm.
“A specially curated mixtape for Opera Passion Day including a Paraphrase on Rossini by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, the Catalogue Aria from Don Giovanni and Gabriela Montero's Improvisation on Ombra Mai Fu.”
Track listing
- 2:00 – Brindisi (La traviata) (track 2, Rolando Villazon: Tenor)
- Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic
- Composer Giuseppe Verdi
- Singer Rolando Villazón
- Choir Vienna State Opera Choir
- Singer Anna Netrebko
- Conductor Carlo Rizzi
- 5:04 – Summertime
- Composer George Gershwin
- Performer Miles Davis
- Director Gil Evans
- 8:20 – Paraphrase on Largo al factotum from Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini
- Performer Gil Shaham
- Composer Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco
- Performer Akira Eguchi
- 12:59 – Window of Appearances (Akhnaten)
- Composer Philip Glass
- Conductor Dennis Russell Davies
- Singer Paul Esswood
- Singer Milagro Vargas
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Stuttgart State Opera
- 17:13 – Carmen (Seguidillas)
- Composer Georges Bizet
- Performer Ksenija Sidorova
- 19:46 – Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Don Giovanni) (track 3, 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2)
- Singer Bryn Terfel
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor James Levine
- Orchestra Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- 25:16 – Improvisation on Handel: Largo ("Ombra Mai Fu", 'Xerxes')
- Performer Gabriela Montero
- 28:54 – Nessun dorma (Turandot) (track 11, Turandot Highlights)
- Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Singer Luciano Pavarotti
- Composer Giacomo Puccini
- Choir The John Alldis Choir
- Choir Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
- Conductor Zubin Mehta