BBC Symphony Orchestra 2009-08-14 CD London Soundboard

Jonny Greenwood: "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" [2005] Stravinsky: "Apollon musagète" ("Apollo") [1927-1928] Birtwistle: "The Seventeen Arches" from the opera "The Mask of Orpheus" [1986] Part 1 01 radio intro 3:37 02 Jonathan Richard Guy "Jonny" Greenwood: "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" 17:45 03 radio intro 3:31 04 Igor Stravinsky: "Apollon musagète" ("Apollo") 29:28 - ballet in two tableau First Tableau: Prologue, The birth of Apollo > Second tableau: - Variation of Apollo - Pas d'action (Apollo and the three Muses) - Variation of Calliope, the Alexandrine - Variation of Polyhymnia - Variation of Terpsichore - Second Variation of Apollo - Pas de deux - Coda - Apotheosis 05 radio outro 1:49 recording and 2009 seed by cosmosra Part 2 06 Harrison Birtwistle: "The Arches"; Act 2 from "The Mask of Orpheus" 56:02 Peter Zinovieff: libretto Barry Anderson: electronic interludes principals: Orpheus (the man) - Alan Oke (tenor) Orpheus (myth/puppet) - Thomas Walker (tenor) Euridice (the woman) - Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) Euridice (the myth)/Persephone - Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano) Hecate - Claron McFadden (soprano) Charon/Caller/Hades - Andrew Slater (bass-baritone) Fury 1/Woman 1 - Rachel Nicolls (soprano) Fury 2/Woman 2 - Anna Dennis (soprano) Fury 3/Woman 3 - Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano) Judge 1 - Christopher Gillett (tenor) Judge 2 - Hakan Vramsmo (baritone) Judge 3 - Tim Mirfin (bass)