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Words and Music

Charles Hazlewood, mezzo soprano Pamela Helen Stephen, tenor James Gilchrist and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra explore the different ways composers have approached setting words to music.

Charles Hazlewood is joined by mezzo soprano Pamela Helen Stephen, tenor James Gilchrist and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra for a workshop session exploring the many different ways composers over the past three hundred years have approached the setting of words in opera arias and in song.

Purcell: See, see the many coloured fields ("The Fairy Queen")
Handel: Svegliatevi ne core ("Julius Caesar")
Mozart: Dies bildnis ("The Magic Flute")
Berlioz: Spectre de la rose ("Nuits d'ete")
Britten: Midnight's Bell ("Nocturne")
Finzi: It was a lover and his lass

1 hour

Last on

Sat 19 Mar 2005 14:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen - opera (Z.629) ([Act 4] no.35ab; See my many-colour'd fields [prelude - a

  • George Frideric Handel

    Giulio Cesare in Egitto - opera (Act 1; Svegliatevi nel core)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflote - singspiel in 2 acts (K.620) (Act 1, no.3; Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd sc

  • Hector Berlioz

    Les Nuits d'ete for voice and piano or orchestra (Op.7) (no.2; Le Spectre de la rose)

  • Benjamin Britten

    Nocturne for tenor, 7 instruments & string orchestra (Op.60) (Midnight's bell goes ting, t

  • Gerald Finzi

    Let us garlands bring (Op.18) version for baritone & orchestra (no.5; It was a lover and h

Broadcasts

  • Sat 11 Sep 2004 14:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
  • Sat 19 Mar 2005 14:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3