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Rob Cowan plays English choral music by Purcell, ballet music from operas by Handel, Saint-Saens, Rameau and Mussorgsky, and Haydn's Symphony no. 84.

2 hours, 57 minutes

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Sun 31 Aug 201409:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante: ballet music selections

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Concertoes for Wind and Strings Opus 3.
    • Argo.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Missa Solemnis: Benedictus

    Performer: Tanja Becker-Bender. Conductor: Garry Walker. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Violin Concertos.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Idomeneo: ballet music: gavotte - passacaille

    Conductor: Willi Boskovsky. Ensemble: Vienna Mozart Ensemble.
    • Ballet Music.
    • Decca Eloquence.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Andante spianato and grande polonaise

    Conductor: Ernest Bour. Orchestra: SWF Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Nelson Freire en concert.
    • INA.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orpheus and Euridice: Che faro senza Euridice?

    Conductor: Charles Bruck. Orchestra: Orchestra of Netherlands Opera. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Choir: Chorus of Netherlands Opera.
    • Kathleen Ferrier: The Complete EMI Recordings.
    • EMI.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No. 1

    Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Dream of Gerontius: My work is done

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier.
    • Kathleen Ferrier The Complete EMI Recordings.
    • EMI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 84 in E flat major

    Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • The "Paris" Symphonies.
    • Decca.

  • Jules Massenet

    Le roi de Lahore: Entr'acte, Adagio and Waltz

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Massenet Edition.
    • Decca.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orpheus and Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux. Performer: Claude Monteux.
    • Decca & Philips Recordings 1956-1964.
    • Decca.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanschina: Dance of the Persian Slave Girls

    Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • St John's Night on the Bare Mountain.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Émile Paladilhe

    Solo for oboe with piano

    Performer: Katsuya Watanabe. Performer: David Johnson.
    • Romance.
    • Hanssler Profil.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Nais: Overture, Entree majestueuse, Sarabande, Gavotte vive, Rigaudons

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Orchestral Suites from Nais & Le Temple de la Gloire.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale

    Conductor: Paul Paray. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    • French Opera Highlights.
    • Mercury.

  • Robert Volkmann

    Serenade No. 2 for Strings in F Op. 63

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Otmar Suitner.
    • Serenades for Strings.
    • Edel Classics.

  • Henry Purcell

    My Heart is Inditing of a Good Matter

    Choir: VOCES8. Orchestra: Les Inventions.
    • A Purcell Collection.
    • Signum Classics.

Broadcast

  • Sun 31 Aug 201409:00
    BBC Radio 3