14 May 2006
Sunday 14 May 2006 16:00-17:45 (Radio 3)
Listeners' requests include the melancholy but deeply poetic song cycle by Peter Warlock, The Curlew, and one of the last Beethoven piano sonatas, Opus 109, written in 1820 when Beethoven was almost completely deaf. It's performed by the American pianist Craig Sheppard.
Duration:
1 hour 45 minutes
Playlist
CORELLI arr Barbirolli: CONCERTO FOR OBOE AND STRINGS
Evelyn Rothwell / Halle Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli
Dutton CD SJB 1009, T 1-5
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: THREE SHAKESPEARE SONGS
Holst Singers / Stephen Layton
Hyperion CDA 66777, T 2-4
IVES: THE SAINT-GAUDENS IN BOSTON COMMON
(from THREE PLACES IN NEW ENGLAND )
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 439 869-2, T 1
BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATA No. 30, in E, Op 109
Craig Sheppard
Romeo 723341, T 1-3
RUTLAND BOUGHTON: CONCERTO in D Minor for flute and strings
Emily Beynon / New London Orchestra / Ronald Corp
Hyperion CDA 67185, T 7-9
BACH: SINFONIA after BWV 29/1
NUN KOMM DER HEIDEN HEILAND, after BWV 661
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Hyperion CDA 67247, T 1 and 20
WARLOCK: THE CURLEW
Ian Partridge / Music Group of London
EMI CDM 5 65101-2, T 8-11
WAGNER: RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES
Berlin Philharmonic / Klaus Tennstedt
EMI Classics 5 68616-2, CD 1, T 1
