Episode 4
Jonathan Swain with music by Chopin and others influenced by him. Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante. Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust. Plus Shostakovich.
This afternoon there's more from last year's 2009 Chopin and his Europe Festival; Emanuel Ax performs Chopin's Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante. Schumann was another composer who was very influenced by Chopin, and today there's a chance to hear his magnum opus, the Scenes from Goethe's Faust performed by Dietrich Henschel with the Berlin Academy for Early Music.
Presented by Jonathan Swain.
2pm
Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante Op.22
Schubert: Impromptu D.935'3
Emanuel Ax (piano)
2.30pm
Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Dietrich Henschel; Faust, Dr. Marianus, Pater Seraphicus (bass)
Marlis Petersen; Gretchen, Not, Una Poenitentium (soprano)
Yorck Felix Speer; Mephistopheles, B脙露ser Geist, Pater Profundus (bass)
Ruth Ziesak; Sorge, Magna Peccatrix (soprano)
Gerhild Romberger; Mangel, Mater Gloriosa, Mulier Samaritana (alto)
Christian Elsner; Ariel, Pater Ecstaticus (tenor)
Sofi Lorentzen; Martha, Schuld, Maria Aegyptiaca (alto)
RIAS Chamber Chorus
Berlin Academy for Early Music
Hans-Christoph Rademann (director)
4.20pm
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes
Alexei Volodin (piano).
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- Thu 11 Mar 2010 14:00成人快手 Radio 3