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A touch of classics programme 5 /

Young Welsh soprano Rebecca Evans hosts her own series of popular operatic arias and show songs. Joining her, celebrities from the world of music. She begins with Rusalka's Song to the Moon from Rusalka, by Antonin Dvorak. Flutist Emily Beynon plays Rimsky Korsakov's the Flight of the Bumb...

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Corporate Authors: BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Performer), Hilliard Ensemble (Performer)
Other Authors: Beynon, Emily, 1969- (Performer), Evans, Rebecca, 1963- (Performer), Jackson, David M. (Producer), Llewellyn, Grant, 1960- (Conductor), Owen, Hefin (Director), Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908, Ibert, Jacques, 1890-1962, Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975, Caccini, Giulio, 1551-1618, Hellawell, Piers, 1956-, Busnois, Antoine, -1492, Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: London, UK : BBC, 1997.
Series:Classical music in video
Subjects:
Operas > Excerpts.
Opéras > Extraits.
Online media.
Filmed performances.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Spectacles filmés.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Young Welsh soprano Rebecca Evans hosts her own series of popular operatic arias and show songs. Joining her, celebrities from the world of music. She begins with Rusalka's Song to the Moon from Rusalka, by Antonin Dvorak. Flutist Emily Beynon plays Rimsky Korsakov's the Flight of the Bumble Bee and the 2nd movement of Jacques Ibert's Flute Concerto. Shostakovich's Festive Overture in A Op. 96 and Ave Maria by Giulio Caccini follow. Then the Hilliard Ensemble performs Saphire by Piers Hellawell and In Hydraulis by Antoine Busnois. Rebecca Evans concludes with Je veux vivre from Romeo and Juliet by Charles Gounod.
Item Description:For Soprano, Flute, Symphony orchestra, and Vocal quartet.
Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 6, 2012).
Physical Description:1 online resource (29 min.).
Playing Time:00:29:32