About this programme

Penny Gore presents a performance of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, recorded earlier this year at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. This comic opera, which reportedly took the composer only two weeks to complete, tells the story of the ageing Don Pasquale and his doomed attempt to marry a young bride. Alessandro Corbelli sings the part of the Don and Desirée Rancatore plays his bride Norina. Following this, a chance to hear Anthony Marwood and Lawrence Power with conductor Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra in a performance of the young Benjamin Britten's Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra. Donizetti: Don Pasquale. Alessandro Corbelli (bass: Don Pasquale), Desirée Rancatore (soprano: Norina), Gabriele Viviani (baritone: Dr Malatesta), Francesco Demuro (tenor: Ernesto), Richard Tronc (bass: The notary), Radio France Chorus, French National Orchestra, conductor Enrique Mazzola. 4.00 Britten: Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra. Anthony Marwood (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ilan Volkov.