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OPERA NIGHT   Tonight we travel to Goteborg Opera in Sweden for a performance of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet. Paul Whelan is Claudius, King of Denmark, Katarina Karneus is Gertrude, Thomas Oliemans, is Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Peter Loguin is Polonius, Ditte Hojgaard Andersen is Ophelia, Joachim Backstrom is Laertes, Henrik Andersson is Marcellus and Bjorn Larsson is […]
VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH   It’s back to Baroque France on Vox Nostra, as Vlad celebrates the birthday anniversary of Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rameau, another luminary of the keyboard world.  Following on the recent Couperin-fest, today’s programme will feature highlights from Rameau’s prolific output of keyboard, instrumental and vocal works, and especially opera. You won’t miss Vlad’s usual great mix […]
LIZ NOLAN’S LYRIC NOTES Liz Nolan presents great classical music from across the ages.  In the Coffee Concert at 10.30am from the Piazza San Carlo in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Juraj Valcuha, perform Respighi’s Pines of Rome. Coffee Concert:   Italy : Piazza San Carlo, Turin Respighi : Pines of Rome RAI National Symphony Orchestra Juraj […]
THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT Tonight’s concert takes us to the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival for a concert with Janine Jansen and friends and then we feature recordings of Janine Jansen playing Brahms and Bartok. Mozart: Divertimento for string trio Janine Jansen (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Jens Peter Maintz (cello) Shostakovich: Symphony No.15 arr. For piano trio and percussion […]
MARTY IN THE MORNING   The grand opera tour continues as Marty in the Morning visits Teatro di San Carlo, Naples – the oldest opera house in the world – for a production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Built in 1737, Teatro di San Carlo is included by UNESCO as one of the monuments listed in its World […]
THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT   Tonight we travel to Limerick and Clare for two concerts recorded over the summer in St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick and the Killaloe Chamber Music Festival 2016 for a concert recorded in the wonderful setting of St Flannan’s Cathedral. We start the programme commemorating 1916 in the company of the Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge. […]
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