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Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton, Richard Stokes

Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performance from mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton as they prepare for a recital at Wigmore Hall marking the launch of The Penguin Book of English Song written by Richard Stokes.

2 hours, 15 minutes

Music Played

  • John Ireland

    Her Song

    Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
  • Ivor Gurney

    By a Bierside

    Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Verdi prati (Alcina)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Roger Quilter

    Go, lovely Rose

    Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no. 2 (D.125) in B flat major, 3rd movement; Menuetto and trio

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Schubert: 8 Symphonies: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Forest Spirits (Suite no.1 in A minor)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • Naxos.
  • John Taverner

    Audivi vocem

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude Ich ruf' zu dir

    Performer: Maria Razumovskaya.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Il vecchio castello (from Pictures at an Exhibition)

    Performer: Maria Razumovskaya.
  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Lance Friedel.
    • Naxos.
  • Alec Roth

    The Turtle Dove

    Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Morgan Szymanski.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    North by Northwest (Overture)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Bernard Hermann: The Film Scores: Salonen, LA Phil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor

    Performer: Maria Razumovskaya.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K.361, 'Gran Partita' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Linn.
  • Kala Ramnath

    Raag Yaman

    Performer: Gurdain Singh Rayatt.
  • Ravi Shankar

    Kafi Zila (Symphony)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Murphy.
    • Ravi Shankar Symphony.
    • LPO.
    • 1.
  • Kala Ramnath

    Raag Bhairavi

    Performer: Gurdain Singh Rayatt.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor, BWV 1058 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Murray Perahia.
    • Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3,5,6,7: Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

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  • Fri 27 May 2016 16:30

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