January 29
This week, a rarely heard rustic retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet led by the legendary Sir Thomas Beechum
Frederick Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet
Frederick Sharp: Marti
Margaret Ritchie: Sali, son of Manz (child)
René Soames: Sali
Dorothy Bond: Vreli, daughter of Marti (child)
Lorely Dyer: Vreli
Gordon Clinton: The Dark Fiddler
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham, conductor
Synopsis of A Village Romeo and Juliet
ALSO ON THE PROGRAM
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Ô cruel souvenir... Je ne te reverrai jamais" (from Henry VIII)
Véronique Gens, soprano
Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset, conductor
Franz Schubert*: "Der Zwerg" D 771
Robert Schumann: "Waldesgespräch" (Liederkreis Op. 39, No. 3)
Hugo Wolf: "Der Feuerreiter" (Mörike-Lieder, Op. 44)
Felix Mendelssohn: "Hexenlied" Op. 8, No. 8
Nicholas Phan, tenor / Myra Huang, Piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore K. 339
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Catherine Wyn Rogers, contralto
Jamie MacDougall, tenor
Stephen Gadd, bass
The English Concert / The English Concert Choir - Trevor Pinnock, conductor
Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder-Waltzer, Op. 52 - Selections: Nos. 1-9 & 15-18
Teresa Shaw, mezzo-soprano
Philip Salmon, tenor
Robert Levin & John Perry, piano
Monteverdi Choir - John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
*Four songs presented collectively on Nicholas Phan's album Gods & Monsters as "Things That Go Bump in the Night."
