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James Ehnes, Johan Löfving

Sean Rafferty talks to the violinist James Ehnes, who has a new album of Beethoven Sonatas out now, and today's Home Session is played on the 'romantic' guitar by period string specialist Johan Löfving.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Aaron Copland

    Danza de Jalisco (3 Latin American Sketches)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Copland: Symphony No. 3 & 3 Latin American Sketches.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No.8 - III. Allegro vivace

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • Onyx.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major, G. 448: III. Grave assai - Fandango

    Performer: Johan Löfving. Performer: Nanako Aramaki. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
    • Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String Quartet.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 10.
  • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

    Concerto for Violin, Strings & Continuo in G, Bre 9: I. Allegro

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Extra Time.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Taneyev

    Fugue from John of Damascus, Op. 1

    Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko. Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Bells, Op. 35 - Taneyev: John of Damasacus, Op. 1.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 203.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • CBS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Swan Theme)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • DG.
  • Robert Schumann

    12 Poems of Justinus Kerner Op.35 - no.12; Alte Laute

    Performer: James Baillieu. Singer: Allan Clayton.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No.5 - II. Adagio molto espressivo

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • Onyx.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No.4 - III. Allegro molto

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • Onyx.
  • Antonio Valente

    Gallarda; Jarabe loco (Folías criollas)

    Lyricist: Enrique Barona. Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Performer: Morwenna Del Mar. Performer: Hetty Snell. Performer: Rebecca Herman. Performer: Judith Fleet.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Brunnquell aller Gnaden (Cantata No 162)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.41 in C major K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur

    Cantique des cantiques

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 Jul 202017:00

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