18 January 2006
Wednesday 18 January 2006 10:00-12:00 (Radio 3)
Rob Cowan features Handel's Messiah and other sacred works, plus recordings by Fritz Kreisler.
Playlist
10.00 HANDEL "He was despised" (Messiah, Pt II)
Janet Baker (contralto), English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)
EMI CDM 565 336 2
10.14* GERSHWIN It ain't necessarily so; Tempo di blues
Jascha Heifetz (violin), Emanuel Bay (piano)
MCA CLASSICS MCAD 42212
10.20* KREISLER String Quartet in A minor
Fritz Kreisler & Thomas Petre (violins), William Primrose (viola), Lauri Kennedy (cello)
BIDDULPH RECORDINGS LAB 001-3 (3-CD set)
10.49* GOULD Interplay
Morton Gould and his Orchestra
RCA 09026 61651 2
11.05* STRAUSS Serenade in E flat, Op 7
Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell (conductor)
MERCURY 434 399 2
11.16* HANDEL Dixit Dominus
Felicity Palmer & Margaret Marshall (sopranos),
Charles Brett & John Angelo Messana (countertenors),
Richard Morton & Alastair Thompson (tenors),
David Wilson-Johnson (bass),
Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichord), Malcolm Hicks (organ),
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ERATO 2292 45136 2
11.52* BERLIN Blue Skies
Fritz Kreisler (violin), Carl Lamson (piano)
RCA 09026 61649 2 (11 CD set)
