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Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan explores musical images of spring, including Copland, Debussy, and Rachmaninov. With the week's Mozart piano sonata: No 14 in C minor, K457, featuring Sviatoslav Richter.

Rob Cowan's selection of music explores images of spring by composers including Copland, Debussy, and Rachmaninov. He also presents the week's Mozart's Piano Sonata, No. 14, in C minor, K457, played by Sviatoslav Richter, as well as an interpretation of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata by Anton Kuerti. Plus orchestral gems from Haydn, Strauss and Mahler, and operatic recordings by Renata Tebaldi.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 5 Apr 2015 09:00

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the Trumpet

    Performer: Wim van Hasselt. Performer: J枚rgen van Rijen.
    • Tintomara.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 001.
  • Henry Purcell

    Thy word is a lantern unto my feet Z61

    Performer: Greg Morris. Conductor: James Vivian. Choir: The Temple Church Choir.
    • A Festival of Psalms.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 007.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tsar's Bride: Overture

    Conductor: Fuat Mansurov. Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra.
    • The Tsar's Bride.
    • Meloodiya.
    • 001.
  • Licinio Refice

    Cecilia: Per amor di Gesu porgete il core (L'annunzio)

    Singer: Renata Tebaldi. Conductor: Alberto Erede. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Saint Cecilia Academy Rome.
    • Renata Tebaldi: Voce d'Angelo - The Complete Decca Recordings.
    • Decca.
    • 014.
  • 1707 - 1709) Anon. (Collection Flores de Musica

    Chacona

    Conductor: Matthias Maute. Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice.
    • Salsa Baroque.
    • Analekta.
    • 001.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde: Der Trunkene im Fruhling

    Singer: Richard Lewis. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Euguene Ormandy conducts 20th Century Classics.
    • Sony.
    • 028.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.
    • Solo Recordings.
    • Decca.
    • 005.
  • Claude Debussy

    Images: iii Rondes de Printemps

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • La Mer, Images.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 008.
  • Richard Strauss

    Fruhlingsfeier (Spring Celebration)

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Edda Moser.
    • Lieder von Richard Strauss und Johannes Brahms.
    • EMI.
    • 006.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring (1945, Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Appalachian Spring, etc..
    • Mercury Living Presence.
    • 001.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vesna (Spring)

    Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Choir: Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia. Singer: Sergei Petrovich Leiferkus. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • Rachmaninov: The Complete Works.
    • Decca.
    • 010.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Suor Angelica: Senza mamma ...

    Singer: Renata Tebaldi. Orchestra: Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli.
    • Renata Tebaldi: Voce d'Angelo - The Complete Decca Recordings.
    • Decca.
    • 010.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight'

    Performer: Anton Kuerti.
    • The Complete Piano Sonatas & Diabelli Variations.
    • Analekta Fleur de Lys.
    • 007.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Late Lark

    Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Conductor: Eric Fenby. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Delius Collection vol. 2.
    • Unicorn Kanchana.
    • 004.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 37 in C major

    Conductor: Max Goberman. Orchestra: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper.
    • The Symphonies of Haydn Nos. 37, 40 & 41.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 001.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Fest und Gedenkspruche Op. 109

    Choir: North German Radio Chorus. Conductor: G眉nter Jena.
    • Chorwerke.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Apr 2015 09:00