EVENINGS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
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PROGRAMME FOR 5 MARCH 2003
HEAVENLY  MUSIC
THE SUN

1.          Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945):  IRIS
                    La Notte ... I Primi Albori ... I Fiori ... L'Aurora (Il Sole)
                    Night ... The Sun's First Rays ... The Flowers ... The Aurora (The Sun)
                    Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
                    Münchner Rundfunkorchester  -  Giuseppe Patané

THE MOON

2.          Claude Debussy (1862-1918):  CLAIR DE LUNE
                    John O'Conor (piano)

3.          Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904):  RUSALKA
                    Mesícku na nebi hlubokém
                    Song to the Moon
                    Rusalka  -  Reneé Fleming (soprano)
                    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra  -  Charles Mackerras

THE STARS

4.          Robert Schumann (1810-56):  MEIN SCHÖNSTER STERN
                    Elly Ameling (soprano)
                    Jörg Demus (piano)

5.          Richard Wagner (1813-83):  TANNHÄUSER
                    Wie Todesahnung ... O du mein holder Abendstern
                    Like a portent of death ... O my fair evening star
                    Wolfram  -  Bryn Terfel (baritone)
                    Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra  -  Claudio Abbado

THE PLANETS

6.          Gustav Holst (1874-1934):  THE PLANETS
                    i       Mars, the bringer of war
                    ii      Venus, the bringer of peace
                    iii     Mercury, the winged messenger
                    iv     Jupiter, the bringer of jollity
                    v      Saturn, the bringer of old age
                    vi     Uranus, the magician
                    vii    Neptune, the mystic
                    viii   Colin Matthews (b. 1946):  Pluto, the renewer
                    Ladies of the RSNO Chorus
                    Royal Scottish National Orchestra  -  David Lloyd-Jones
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