Words and Music

Available for over a year

Charles Hazlewood is joined by mezzo soprano, Pamela Helen Stephen, tenor, James Gilchrist and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a workshop session exploring the many different ways composers over the past three hundred years have approached the setting of words in opera arias and in song. Purcell: See, see the many coloured fields ("The Fairy Queen") Handel: Svegliatevi ne core ("Julius Caesar") Mozart: Dies bildnis ("The Magic Flute") Berlioz: Spectre de la rose ("Nuits d'ete") Britten: Midnight's Bell ("Nocturne") Finzi: It was a lover and his lass.