Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Journeys. Richard plays some of the greatest operatic journeys or quests ever, from Gluck to Wagner to Birtwistle to Knussen, with guest Bill Bankes-Jones, the artistic director of The Tête à Tête Opera Festival.
Originally broadcast on 31st July 2014
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Structured Mutterings. Richard talks to the critic and writer Fiona Maddocks about her new book Wild Tracks – A Conversation Diary with Harrison Birtwistle, which details 6 months of intense conversations between her and the famously allusive composer. Fiona will also be sharing her favourite Birtwistle pieces with us and indeed a few of her all time favourite operatic moments.
Originally broadcast on 24th July 2014
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Originally broadcast on 17th July 2014.
Opera singer Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Handel Redux. Richard examines the continued influence of Handel on opera composers and talks to composer Tim Benjamin about his new opera Madame X.
Originally broadcast on 3rd July 2014
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: The Aviary. Richard talks to the emerging LSO Soundhub composer Maxim Boon about his new ballet, Flock, inspired by the complex murmurations of flocks of starlings; and we’ll also be exploring other extraordinary works which feature the feathered and the flocking by Messiaen, Mozart, Stravinsky and Henze.
Originally broadcast on 26th June 2014
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Crowds and Choruses. Richard talks to the dynamic and passionate composer David Lang about his new work for 1,000 voices, Crowd Out, inspired by being in a crowd watching Arsenal F. C. play; and we’ll also be hearing other riotous, bombastic and extraordinary opera choruses and choral pieces from Bach, Gluck, Britten and John Adams.
Opera singer and poet Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Dresden – an essay in six melodies. Richard travels to The Dresden Music Festival in an essay exploring the dramatically complex and baroque city of Dresden, alongside a Schubert piano duet, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Strauss’ rarely performed opera Feuersnot.
Originally broadcast on 12th June 2014
Opera singer and poet Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Richard is joined at The Science Museum by the artist Edwin Burdis, who has been on a sonic pilgrimage around the U.K collecting material for his latest opera Light Green and Dark Grey. Edwin will be talking to Richard about his journey, his process and also playing some excerpts through Denman’s Exponential Horn.
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Originally broadcast on 29th May 2014
Opera singer and poet Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: What The Horn Would Have Heard. Broadcasting live from The Science Museum through Denman’s Exponential Horn Loudspeaker, Richard plays operas written, recorded and premiered between 1929- 1939 by Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Weill, Paul Abraham, Schoenberg and Strauss; these are the melodies the horn would have originally broadcast, every day throughout the 30s, until the outbreak of WWII.
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Originally broadcast on 22nd May 2014
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. On today’s show we meet witches, hags, sayers and seers as Richard invokes opera’s fascination with witches. From Purcell to Birtwistle, composers have been besotted with a particular type of woman – one who is intelligent, powerful and sexual.
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Originally broadcast on 8th May 2014, Resonance FM, London