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Martin Handley speaks to American opera singer Michael Spyres about Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project. Michael Spyres sings on Volume 3, accompanied by Opera Rara's Artistic Director, Carlo Rizzi, which is due for release on 21 February.

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Music Played

  • L茅o Delibes

    Mazurka (Copp茅lia)

    Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
    • Erato.
    • 4.
  • Arnold Bax

    Dance in Sunlight (3 Pieces for small orchestra)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • The Banks of Green Willow.
    • EMI.
  • Elfrida Andr茅e

    Piano Trio in C minor: iv. Finale (Allegro con fuoco)

    Ensemble: Nordica Trio.
    • INTIM MUSIC.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Where the lark sings

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • EMI.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite Symphonie (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral and Vocal Favourites.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche, Op. 165d (Version for Clarinet & Orchestra): III. Brazileira

    Conductor: Anna Skryleva. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester.
    • Busoni, Fran莽aix & Others: Clarinet Concertos.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 105.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture Op.92

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Virgin.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    4 African dances (no.2)

    Performer: David Juritz. Performer: Michael Dussek.
    • Dutton Epoch.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos - Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.
    • Decca.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no. 1 Op.1a - Sun Dance

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • EMI.
  • Erland Cooper

    Folded Landscapes - Movement 2

    Performer: Erland Cooper. Narrator: Simon Armitage. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Folded Landscapes.
    • Mercury Classics.
    • 3.
  • Benjamin Britten

    On This Island, Op. 11: IV. Nocturne

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Lyricist: W. H. Auden. Singer: James Gilchrist.
    • Britten: My Beloved is Mine.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No.2 Op.83 - 4. Allegro non troppo

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major Op.76`1 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Angeles Quartet.
    • Joseph Haydn The String Quartets Op.76 nos.1-3.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 2: Gewandhouorchester, Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

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