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This Week's Guest:
Felicity Lott
13 July 2008
Repeated
18 July 2008 |
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Felicity's Choice |
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Photo by Trevor Leighton
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the soprano, Dame Felicity Lott.
She is one of Britain's best known and best loved singers and has given performances in opera houses the world over under the batons of such notable conductors as Bernard Haitink, Carlos Kleiber and Georg Solti.
As a child, she had always loved singing, but was, she says, a shy, gawky girl who didn't have sharp enough elbows to get to the top. She tried her hand at teaching, but found she was so crippled with nerves that she had to abandon the idea. By good fortune she was delivered to a singing teacher who spotted her talent and gave her encouragement. It was exactly what she needed - she has enjoyed a career spanning more than thirty years and over that time has won a large and loyal army of fans. |
1. Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra
Performer Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta
Composer Mozart
CD Title Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante.
Track 1
Label DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No 4154862
2. I was Glad
Performer The Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor
Composer Parry
CD Title Parry Cathedral Music: St George’s Chapel Choir, Windsor
Track 1
Label HYPERION
Rec No CDA 66273
3. A Time for Love
Performer Tony Bennett
Composer Johnny Mandel/Paul Francis Webster
CD Title Forty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
Track 19
Label COLUMBIA
Rec No C4K46843
4. Abendlied
Performer The Songmaker’s Almanac
Composer Brahms
CD Title Voices of the Night
Track 21.
Label HYPERION
Rec No CDA 66053
5. Closing bars from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Performer From the 1981 Glyndebourne Production
Composer Britten
6. The entrance of King Menelaus from the 1st act of La Belle Helene
Performer Michel Senechal with the Choir and Orchestra of the Louvre, Grenoble, conducted by Marc Minkowski
Composer Offenbach
CD Title La Belle Helene
Track CD1 Trk 12
Label VIRGIN CLASSICS
Rec No VCD 5454772
7. Fantasia for Piano for Four Hands
Performer Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu
Composer Schubert
CD Title Mozart.Schubert-Perahia-Lupu
Track 4
Label CBS
Rec No CD 359511
8. Moonlight Music – the prelude to the final scene of Capriccio
Performer Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Horst Stein
Composer Strauss
CD Title Strauss: Capriccio – Live Recording 1985
Track 7
Label ORFEO
Rec No C518992
Record: Moonlight Music by Strauss
Book: Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Luxury: Lots of champagne and pistachio nuts
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