Playlist

3 for all Prom Archive Season

3 for all will be celebrating this year's Prom season by broadcasting one archive Prom performance a
week, working successively through the decades and starting with the 1950s. But the choice of
performance is up to you!

First up is the 1950s and it's a choice between Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 2, performed by the Odessa-born pianist Benno Moiseiwitch, whom Rachmaninov considered to be the greatest interpreter of his works, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent

Or

The September 1955 Prom recording of Delius's rarely heard Piano Concerto, performed by Moiseiwitch with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent.


From the 1960s Prom archives, you can choose between the following:

John Tavener's dramatic cantata The Whale , which catapulted the young composer to fame making use of pre-recorded tape, amplified percussion and loudhailer, performed by the London Sinfonietta under David Atherton.

Or

Tchaikovsky's symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini , which Tchaikovksy composed and fully orchestrated in just six weeks, performed by the LSO under Leopold Stokowski.

All you have to do is send an email to

[email protected]

and just state 1950s: 'Rachmaninov' or 'Delius'; and 1960s: 'Tavener' or 'Tchaikovsky' - don't forget to let us have your name and address!

This week's playlist:


HANDEL
ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
ARCHIV 415 518-2, T10 

DELIUS
IRMELIN - Concert suits from act 2
Arr Beecham BBC SO / David Porcelijn
BBC RECORDING 

ARVO PART
CANTUS IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Richard Studt
VIRGIN CLASSICS 5453382, T1

HANDEL
AS STEALS THE MORN (Il Moderato)
Patrizia Kwella / Maldwyn Davies / English
Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner
Erato 2292-45377-2, CD 2, T 16

MENDELSSOHN
OCTET FOR STRINGS
Hausmusik
EMI CDC 7 49958-2, T 5-8

FAURE
CANTIQUE DE JEAN RACINE
Cambridge Singers / CLS /John Rutter
Collegium CSCD 500, T 20

MORLEY
FYER, FYER
Amaryllis Consort
IMP PCD873, T 1

WAGNER
SIEGFRIED'S DEATH, FUNERAL MUSIC and IMMOLATION from GOTTERDAMMERUNG
Berlin Philharmonic / Lorin Maazel
Telarc CD 80154, T 19 and 20