Upbeat for Tuesday 25 February 2014

12:15 Victor Rodger

Playwright talks about his latest work Black Faggot

12:40 Dianne Swann

Singer from The Bads talks about their new album Travel Light

1pm Haydn Rawstron

Singer and organiser of the Lansdown Summer series

1:15 Osvaldo Golijov

Argentinian composer speaks to Kate Mead about his opera Ainadamar

Music played in this show

TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 3 in Eb minor Op 30
Kelemen Quartet
Irish Radio 2013

ADAMS/SWANN: Fly Together
The Bads  
WARNER  615421

ADAMS/SWANN: Woken By A Melody
The Bads  
WARNER  615421

ADAMS/SWANN: Travel Light
The Bads  
WARNER  615421

SCHUBERT: Gott im Fruhling from The Therese Grob Songbook
Dorothee Jansen (sop), Francis Grier (pno)
Somm SOMMCD 223        

MOZART: Non più di fiori, from La Clemenza di Tito
Lucia Popp (sop), Zürich Opera House Orch/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Teldec 4509 97507

TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D
Ole Edvard Antonsen (tpt), English CO / Jeffrey Tate
EMI 7 54897                          

GOLIJOV: Ainadamar (Fountain of tears)
DG 477 6165