6 April 2006
Thursday 6 April 2006 10:00-12:00 (Radio 3)
Rob Cowan spotlights Schubert string quartets and recordings of composers as conductors.
Playlist
10.00 KHACHATURIAN Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Aram Khachaturian (conductor)
DECCA 460 315-2
10.10* SCHUBERT: Der Tod und das Madchen, D.531
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
EMI CMS 764074-2
(4-CD set)
10.12* SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor, 'Der Tod und das Madchen' D.810
Busch Quartet
EMI CDH 769795-2
10.48* SCHUMANN Gesänge der Fruhe, Op.133
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 471 368-2
10.59* PROKOFIEV The Parting of Romeo & Juliet (Romeo & Juliet Suite No.2)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergei Prokofiev (conductor)
PARNASSUS PACD 96023
11.10* WAGNER Siegfried: Act III, sc.3
Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) , Brünnhilde: Astrid Varnay (soprano)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT4 1392
(4-CD set)
