a southern gal in the north

   BBC Radio 3

8 am EDT   Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005  The artists-in-residence of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005. Introduced by Tommy Pearson. 

Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1, No 1; Piano Trio in G, Op 1 No 2 ;
Florestan Trio

2:30 pm EDT   Performance on 3 – Two young Finnish artists make their
debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Susanna Malkki conducts; Antti Siirala, who won the 2003 Leeds
International Piano Competition is the soloist. Presented from the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios by Paul Guinery.

Bainbridge: Fantasia for Double Orchestra, Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22, K482, Dutilleux: Symphony No 2;
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Antti Siirala (piano); Susanna Malkki (conductor)

TWO days to BBC Proms 2005 First Night

KING-FM, The Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival. Broadcasting all performances from the Festival.  Started last week thru July 29th (still plenty left to hear).    Series is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 8 pm PDT

BBC Proms 2005 First Week schedule – Friday July 15th thru Thursday July 21st.  After the First Night (Tippett and Mendelssohn) on Prom 4 is the highly praised Royal Opera Die Walkuere  (Domingo in his Proms DEBUT!, with Meier who from all accounts stealing the entire opera and Terfel in his first Wotan)   in between on Prom 3 is Purcell’s The Fairy Queen from the Gabrieli Consort and Prom 2, a Gilbert & Sullivan evening and Stephen Hough (Rachmaniov Piano Conc 1), and ending with London Premiere of James MacMillan’s A Scotch Bestiary.   Oh and don’t forget , the first chamber concert of Barber, Faure and Warlock with Sir Thomas Allen.

Just bookmark the BBC Proms website and keep your Realplayer streaming BBC Radio 3 for – oh say, the next two months.

WQXR-FM, The annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert features James Levine leading the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in an all-Wagner program: Die Walküre, Act 1 and Gotterdämmerung, Act 3, with Deborah Voigt (Siegflinde and Brünnhilde), Clifton Forbis (Siegmund), Christian Franz (Siegfried), Melanie Diener (Gutrune), Lyubov Petrova (Woglinde), Maria Zifchack (Wellgunde), Jane Bunnell (Flosshilde), Alan Held (Gunther), and Kristinn Sigmundsson (Hunding and Hagen).  Check the website for the limited webcast streaming options. Sat., July 16 – 8:30 – 10:30 PM

Opera Stage [WFMT Radio Network WRTI ]:  Beethoven: FIDELIO Leonore: Deborah Voigt, soprano; Florestan: Thomas Moser, tenor; Don Fernando: James Morris, bass; Don Pizarro: Tom Fox, baritone; Marzelline: Harolyn Blackwell, soprano; Jacquino: Stanford Olsen, tenor  CONDUCTOR: Robert Bass; ENSEMBLE: The Collegiate Chorale; ORCHESTRA: Orchestra of St. Luke’s  Taped at Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York Sat. July 16th 130 pm

   From BBC Radio 3

8 am EDT  Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005 – Tommy Pearson introduces the second concert in the Florestan Trio’s Beethoven cycle from the Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005.  The third concert will be on Wednesday    The Florestan Trio’s final concert can be heard on Sunday in Sunday Gala.

11 am EDT   Voices:  My Kind of Song – Iain Burnside talks to conductor Jeffrey Tate about his favourite singers, including Janet Baker, Peter Pears, Eartha Kitt and Charles Trenet.

2:30-4:30 pm EDT  Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005 – Virtuous Women and Fallen Wives: Tommy Pearson introduces a gala celebration of Felicity Lott’s 30th anniversary of her recital debut in a collection of songs about women in all their guises.    With Felicity Lott (soprano); Graham Johnson (piano)