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Stephen Broad unwraps Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande

Stephen Broad shares his love of Debussy's only completed opera Pelléas et Mélisande and composer Jay Capperauld chooses his My Music, as well as new releases from cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Tigran Hamasyan.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin, Act 3, Prelude

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pelléas et Mélisande, Introduction

    Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Gilles Cachemaille, Colette Alliot-Lugaz. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pelléas et Mélisande, Act 2 Scene 1, Interlude

    Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chaconne from Partita in D minor

    Performer: Rachel Podger.
  • Max Richter

    Words

    Performer: Virginia Wolf.
  • Max Richter

    In The Garden

    Performer: German Film Orchestra Babelsbery. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
  • Paul Dukas

    Ariane et Barbe-Bleue - 'A Mort! A Mort!

    Performer: Choir and New Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France. Conductor: Armin Jordan.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Le Joie du Bleu Profond

    Performer: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pelléas et Mélisande, Where’s the ring I gave you?

    Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Gilles Cachemaille, Colette Alliot-Lugaz. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Sicilienne

    Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
  • Jean Sibelius

    At the Castle Gate

    Performer: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Le Collier from Poemes Pour Mi

    Performer: Maria Oran, Yvonne Loriod.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Mercury

    Performer: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pelléas et Mélisande, The Hair

    Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Didier Henry, Colette Alliot-Lugaz. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding Cake

    Performer: Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Overture from Messiah

    Performer: Bridget Cunningham.
  • Judith Weir

    Standchen

    Performer: Ailish Tynan, Iain Burnside.
  • Tigran Hamasyan

    Markos and Markos

    Performer: Tigran Hamasyan.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pelléas et Mélisande, Prenez Garde - par ici, par ici

    Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Didier Henry, Gilles Cachemaille. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
  • Claude Debussy

    Il Pleure dans mon Coeur

    Performer: Mary Garden and Claude Debussy.
  • John Williams

    Star Wars Main Theme

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Suite in the Old Style - Pantomime

    Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich, Petr Limonov.
  • John De Simone

    Geek

    Performer: 鶹Լ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Feb 2017 21:00