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Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a wide range of music, including poetry settings by Part, Britten, Campion and Vaughan Williams to celebrate National Poetry Day.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 7 Oct 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Una voce poco fa (Barber of Seville)

    Arranger: Schottstadt Performer: Sabine Meyer (clarinet) Performer: Zurich Opera Orchestra Performer: Franz Welser-Most (conductor)

    • EMI 5 56237 2.
  • Thomas Young

    It was a lover and his lass

    Performer: Ken 鈥淪nakehips鈥 Johnson and his West Indian Orchestra with Al Bowlly and the Henderson Twins

    • HMV BD 5592.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E flat, RV.257

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola (violin) Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra Performer: Andrea Marcon (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SK 51352.
  • Thomas Campion

    Never weather beaten sail

    Performer: Steven Rickards (countertenor) Performer: Dorothy Linell (lute)

    • NAXOS 8. 553390.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in C, Op 72, No. 7

    Arranger: Patrick Clements Performer: Wind soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    • COE CD 812.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (opening chorus)

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir Performer: English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 463 587 2.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Salon Polka, Op 7 No. 1

    Performer: Andras Schiff (piano)

    • WARNER CLASSICS 2564 69175-3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Love bade me welcome (George Herbert)

    Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone) Performer: Corydon Singers Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Matthew Best (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA66420.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for keyboard and violin in G major, K.27

    Performer: Gary Cooper (fortepiano) Performer: Rachel Podger (violin)

    • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 26208.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Scherzo in B flat

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • SONY SK 62034.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sweet Bird (L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato)

    Performer: Patrizia Kwella (soprano) Performer: English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • WARNER CLASSICS 2564 69620-8.
  • Robert Schumann

    2 pieces No. 21; No. 26 from Album fur die Jugend

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 699470 2.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    String Quartet No. 1, scherzo [last movement]

    Performer: Royal String Quartet

    • HYPERION CDA 67684.
  • Charles Ives

    Crossing the bar

    Performer: 成人快手 Singers Performer: Christopher Hughes (organ) Performer: Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    • COLLINS CLASSICS 14792.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo all turca (Piano Sonata in A minor, K.311)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

    • PHILIPS 412 123-2.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Mazurka in G major Op 18

    Performer: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales Performer: Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

    • BIS-CD-1663/64.
  • Benjamin Britten

    O Rose thou art sick (Serenade for tenor, horn and strings)

    Performer: Peter Pears (tenor) Performer: Barry Tuckwell (horn) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Benjamin Britten (conductor)

    • DECCA 417 153-2.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Sinfonia in G, Op 3, No. 6

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 456 065 2.
  • William Walton

    Waltz from Fa莽ade

    Arranger: Walton Performer: Ian Brown (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67340.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier - Overture to Gwendoline

    Performer: Orchestre Nationale de France Performer: Armin Jordan (conductor)

  • Arvo P盲rt

    My heart's in the Highlands (Burns)

    Performer: David James (countertenor) Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)

    • HYPERION CDA 67375.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Performer: Melos Ensemble

    • EMI 72646 2.
  • Stan Tracey

    Starless and bible-black (from Under Milk Wood Jazz Suite)

    Performer: Bobby Wellins, Stan Tracey, Jeff Clyne, Jackie Dougan

    • BLUE NOTE INTERNATIONAL 0777 7 89449 2 8.
  • Thomas Shaw

    Violin Concerto in G major

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Performer: The Parley of Instruments Performer: Peter Holman (fortepiano/director)

    • HELIOS CDH 55260.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Who is Sylvia (Let us garlands bring)

    Performer: Bryn Terfel (baritone) Performer: Malcolm Martineau (piano)

    • DG 445 946 2.

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