Monday Night at the Opera

Classical Music 7:00-9:30pm

Hosted by: Meera Collier-Mitchell

Monday, April 16, 2007

Time (approx.)	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	Josef Mysliveček	Antigona: “Sarò qual è il torrente” L’Olimpiade: “Che non mi disse un di!”	Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano Prague Philharmonia, Michel Swierczewski, cond.	Le Belle Immagini	Deutsche Grammophon
	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	La clemenza di Tito: “Deh, per questo instante solo”
	Johannes Brahms	· Liebestreu · Vergebliches Ständchen · Däs Madchen · Therese · Mädchenlied · Der Jäger	Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano Roger Vignoles, piano	Lieder	Harmonia Mundi
7:30	Ralph Vaughan Williams Text by A.E. Housman	Along the Field: · We’ll to the woods no more · Along the field · The half-moon westers low · In the mornings · The sigh that heaves the grasses · Good-bye · Fancy’s Knell · With rue my heart is laden	John Mark Ainsley, tenor Leo Phillips, violin	Vaughan Williams: Along the Field, On Wenlock Edge, Merciless Beauty, Ten Blake Songs, and other songs	Hyperion
	John Ireland (1879-1962) Text by John Masefield	Sea Fever The Vagabond The Bells of San Marie	Bryn Terfel, baritone Malcolm Martineau, piano	The Vagabond & other songs by Vaughan Williams	Deutsche Grammophon
8:00	Ralph Vaughan Williams Text by Walt Whitman	A Sea Symphony, No. 1 · A Song for all Seas, all Ships · On the Beach at Night, alone · Scherzo—The Waves · The Explorers	Yvonne Kenny, soprano Brian Rayner Cook, baritone The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Bryden Thomson, cond.	A Sea Symphony	Chandos Digital
9:00	Stephen Scott (b. 1944) Text by William Wordsworth	· The Old Hall · Windermere Racing · Barcarola · O’er Vales that Teem with Fruits: Hector and Harold in Italy (text by George Gordon, Lord Byron)	The Bowed Piano Ensemble Victoria Hansen, soprano	The Deep Spaces	New Albion Records
	Traditional	Russian Medley	Quartetto Gelato	Quartetto Gelato	Marquis Classics