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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Day: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers

Music and Wellbeing - focusing on music's power to unlock memories for those living with dementia. Plus our opera matinee double bill: The Hand of Fate and Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Music and Wellbeing - The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers perform a selection of repertoire focusing on the power of music as a tool to unlock memories for those living with dementia. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers soprano Alice Hulett tells us of her own experience of dementia in her family and introduces the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Memories website (https://musicmemories.bbcrewind.co.uk/). The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers also perform a selection of music inspired and written by composers and poets with a personal connection to dementia.
Followed by today's opera matinee double bill: Die glückliche Hand (The Hand of Fate), to Schoenberg's own libretto, plotting his own life events and concluding that man continues to repeatedly make the same mistakes, and Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Bartok's one-act expressionist opera based on the French literary tale La Barbe Bleue, from the Teatro Massimo, Palermo.

Presented by Penny Gore

One Equal Music – Ben Parry
Simple Gifts – Traditional
Take on Me – A-Ha
Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – Elton John
At Last – Etta James
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
Alexander L’Estrange (conductor)

Errollyn Wallen: My Granny Sarah
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
Nicholas Kok (conductor)

c.2.30 pm
Schoenberg: Accompanying Music to a Film Scene, Op. 34
Schoenberg: Die glückliche Hand (The Hand of Fate), Op. 18
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz.48
A Man / Duke Bluebeard ..... Gábor Bretz (baritone)
Judith ..... Atala Schöck (mezzo-soprano)
Teatro Massimo di Palermo Orchestra and chorus
Gregory Vajda (conductor)

3 hours

Music Played

  • Ben Parry

    One Equal Music

    Performer: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Conductor: Alexander L’Estrange.
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    Take On Me / Karma Chameleon / Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me

    Composer: Culture Club. Composer: Elton John. Performer: Libby Burgess. Music Arranger: Alexander L’Estrange. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Conductor: Alexander L’Estrange.
  • °Õ°ùä»å

    Simple Gifts / At Last

    Composer: Etta James. Performer: Elizabeth Burgess. Music Arranger: Alexander L’Estrange. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Conductor: Alexander L’Estrange.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    My Granny Sarah

    Performer: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Accompanying Music to a Film Scene, op. 34

    Orchestra: Massimo Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Gregory Vajda.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Die glückliche Hand, Op 18

    Singer: Gábor Bretz. Choir: Massimo Theatre Chorus. Orchestra: Massimo Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Gregory Vajda.
  • Béla Bartók

    Bluebeard's Castle, opera in one act

    Singer: Schöck Atala. Singer: Gábor Bretz. Orchestra: Massimo Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Gregory Vajda.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet, Op 64 (Excerpts)

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.
    • NIMBUS RECORDS.
  • Alban Berg

    Five Altenberg Lieder, Op 4

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Singer: Ruby Hughes. Conductor: Jac van Steen.

Broadcast

  • Thu 26 Sep 2019 14:00

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