Expand your horizons with Jamie Barton's favourite music
Episode m002036j, broadcast at Friday 21st June 2024, 7:00pm.
“Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton chooses her perfect half hour of music for Pride Month including Ethel Smyth's Serenade conducted by Odaline de la Martinez, Handel's Ombra mai fu sung by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Bernstein's Serenade performed by Philippe Quint and Marin Alsop. Nicky Spence sings Ned Rorem's For Poulenc and we hear Poulenc's Gloria. There is is also music from Harold Arlen, Chopin and Saint-Saens.”
Track listing
- 0:52 – Over the Rainbow (track , Last Night of the Proms - 2019 - BBC Recording)
- Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Sakari Oramo
- Composer Harold Arlen
- Singer Jamie Barton
- 6:26 – Andante spianato in E flat, Op.22 (track 4, Claudio Arrau – Arrau Heritage - Chopin)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Claudio Arrau
- 6:46 – Serenade in D (2nd mvt)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Composer Dame Ethel Smyth
- Conductor Odaline de la Martinez
- 12:49 – Handel: Serse, HWV 40 - "Ombra mai fù" (track 11, ARC)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble Les Violons du Roy
- Performer Jonathan Cohen
- Lyricist Silvio Stampiglia
- Lyricist Nicolò Minato
- Singer Anthony Roth Costanzo
- 16:07 – Serenade: II. Aristophanes (track 302, Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings)
- Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Leonard Bernstein
- Conductor Marin Alsop
- Performer Philippe Quint
- Performer Timothy Walden
- 20:40 – For Poulenc (track 104, A Most Marvellous Party)
- Performer Joseph Middleton
- Composer Ned Rorem
- Singer Nicky Spence
- Lyricist Frank O'Hara
- 23:34 – Gloria, FP 144: III. Domine Deus
- Conductor Seiji Ozawa
- Composer Francis Poulenc
- Performer Kathleen Battle
- Performer Boston Symphony Orchstra
- Choir Tanglewood Festival Chorus
- 28:08 – Le carnaval des animaux, R 125: VII. Aquarium
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Conductor Zubin Mehta
- Performer Israel Philharmonic Orchestra