Cereal Music playlist for 08/10/2015

Program: 
Cereal Music
  • Ligeti, György
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Mysteries of the Macabre
from
  • Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor); Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Interview with Barbara Hannigan
  • Britten, Benjamin
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Illuminations
from
  • Barbara Hannigan (soprano); Candida Thompson (concertmaster); Amsterdam Sinfonietta
(
  • Channel Classics
)
  • Dutilleux, Henri
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Correspondances
from
  • Barbara Hannigan (soprano); Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor); Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
(
  • Deutsche Grammophon
)
  • Benjamin, George
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Sometime Voices
from
  • Dietrich Henschel (baritone); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Rundfunkchor Berlin, Kent Nagano (conductor)
(
  • Nimbus Records
)
  • Benjamin, George
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Dance Figures
from
  • Oliver Knussen (conductor); BBC Symphony Orchestra
(
  • Nimbus Records
)
  • Benjamin, George
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A Mind of Winter
from
  • George Benjamin (conductor); Penelope Walmsley-Clark (soprano); London Sinfonietta
(
  • Nimbus Records
)
  • Benjamin, George
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Written On Skin: Scene IV (Agnès and the Boy), Scene V (The Protector and the visitors -- John and Marie), and Scene VI (Agnès and the Boy)
from
  • Barbara Hannigan (soprano); Rebecca Jo Loeb (mezzo-soprano); Bejun Mehta (countertenor); Allan Clayton (tenor); Christopher Purves (baritone); George Benjamin (conductor); Mahler Chamber Orchestra
(
  • Nimbus Records
)

Today's program featured an exclusive interview with Canadian soprano/conductor Barbara Hannigan, who sings the part of Agnes in the Mostly Mozart presentation of George Benjamin's Written On Skin. The opera has three performances at the David H. Koch Theater on August 11th, 13th, and 15th. Benjamin's first opera, Into the Little Hill, will also be performed (in concert) on August 16th at Alice Tully Hall, with Benjamin himself conducting the International Contemporary Ensemble...

A special thanks to the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra for providing audio for this broadcast.

Department: 
Classical