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Musical firsts and final works

Singer Eddi Reader chooses her My Music this week. As well as musical firsts and lasts - looking at composers early works and final masterpieces.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sun 19 Jun 201621:00
BBC Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture, Op.96

    Performer: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.

  • Claude Debussy

    Piano Trio in G major, last mvt ‘Appationato’

    Performer: Philippe Muller (cello), Jacques Rouvier ( piano) Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin).

  • Francesco Cilea

    Ecco, Respiro Appena from 'Adriana Lecouvreur'

    Performer: Maria Callas.

  • The Violin Sonata in G minor, L 140

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in E flat major, Op 1 No 1

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) and Jacob Lateiner (piano).

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quartet for strings (Op.130) in B flat major, Finale

    Performer: Hungarian Quartet.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Hymn to the Virgin

    Performer: Training Choir North. Conductor: Dominic Ellis-Peckham.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Welcome Ode, 3-5th mvts

    Performer: City of London Schools, London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.

  • Piano Sonata, Finale

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal, Act III, Gesegnet sei, du Reiner

    Performer: Rene Pape (bass), Chor Der Deutschen Ope Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Songs Op. 6 No.6, None but the Lonely Heart

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, Op.75

    Performer: Barry Douglas, Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.

  • Edward Elgar

    Romance for Violin and Piano Op 1

    Performer: William Bouton (violin), Leonore Hall (piano).

  • Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Verklarte Nacht

    Performer: Juilliard Quartet.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    : Modern Psalm Op.50

    Performer: John Shirley–Quirk (narrator), BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata No 2 in C major K 6, 1st mvt, Allegro

    Performer: Gerard Poulet (violin), Blandine Verlet (harpsichord).

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem in D minor K.626, Requiem Aeternam

    Performer: Dunedin Consort, Joanne Lun (soprano). Conductor: John Butt.

  • Clara Schumann

    Quatre Polonaises Op.1 No.3 in D Major

    Performer: Jozef de Beenhouwer.

  • Robert Schumann

    Abegg Variations

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make Our Garden Grow

    Performer: Members of the Cast.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 3 Apr 201621:00
    BBC Radio Scotland
  • Sun 19 Jun 201621:00
    BBC Radio Scotland