3 for all26 December 2004
Sunday 26 December 2004 16:00-17:45 (Radio 3)
This week's requests include the "most perfect piece of music ever written" according to one listener - the slow movement of Schubert's String Quintet in C. Also, 'Behold the Lamb of God' from Handel's Messiah performed by Bach Collegium Japan, and from the BBC archive, a rare opportunity to hear a suite from Virgil Thomson's 1937 ballet 'The Filling Station'. Duration:1 hour 45 minutes |
 Playlist JOHN FOSTER
WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS
Psalmody / Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman
Hyperion CDA 66924
VIRGIL THOMSON
Suite: THE FILLING STATION
BBC Philharmonic / Matthew Rowe
BBC archive recording
SCHUBERT
STRING QUINTET in C, slow movement
Emerson Quartet / Rostropovich
DG 431 792-2
EDMUND PASCHA
KYRIE, SANCTUS, BENEDICTUS and AGNUS DEI from CHRISTMAS MASS in F Major
Prague Madrigal Singers / Miroslav Venhoda
Campion RRCD 1305
ERLAND VON KOCH
LAPLAND METAMORPHOSIS
Stockholm Philharmonic / Stig Westerberg
SWEDISH SOCIETY SLT 332 59
MOZART
PIANO SONATA in C, K 545
Andras Schiff (on Mozart's fortepiano)
L'OISEAU-LYRE 433 328-2
HANDEL
BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD from MESSIAH
Bach Collegium Japan
BIS CD 891/892
RACHMANINOV
ISLE OF THE DEAD
The Philadelphia Orchestra/Rachmaninoff
RCA 09026 62532 2
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