27 September 2006
Wednesday 27 September 2006 10:00-12:00 (Radio 3)
Rob Cowan spotlights Brahms quintets and sextets, and further recordings by singers of the French school.
Playlist:
10.00am
Dvorak: Serenade for strings in E, Op 22
English Chamber Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 00289 477 5838
10.28am
Gounod: Voici la vaste plaine (Mireille, Act IV)
Martha Angelici (soprano)
Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra- Comique
André Cluytens (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 585 329 2
10.37am
Mendelssohn: Variations sérieuses in Dm, Op 54
Valerie Tryon (piano)
APR 5595
10.49am
Brahms, reconstr. Boustead: Serenade No 1 in D, Op 11
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
PHILIPS 426 298 2
11.35am
Debussy: Le promenoir des deux amants
Bernard Kruysen (baritone)
Jean-Charles Richard (piano)
INA mémoire vive IMV010
11.42am
Thomas: À vos jeux...Et maintenant, écoutez ma chanson! (Hamlet, Act IV)
Mady Mesplé (soprano)
Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris
Jean-Pierre Marty (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 586 320 2