Private Passions playlist 6 August
M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30 (conclusion of 3rd mvt - Finale)
Lang Lang (piano)/St Petersburg Philharmonic/Yuri Temirkanov
Telarc CD 80582 T.3 (exc.)
(Album - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3. Lang Lang)
Sondheim: Ladies in their sensitivities (from Sweeney Todd)
Sarah Rice (Johanna)/Victor Garber (Anthony)/Edmund Lyneck (Judge Turpin)/
Jack Eric Williams (The Beadle)/Orchestra/Paul Gemignani
RCA 33792RC Disc 1 T.18
(Album - Sondheim: Sweeney Todd. Original Cast)
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84 (opening of 2nd mvt - Adagio)
John Ogdon (piano)/Allegri Quartet
EMI 7698892 T.2 (exc.)
(Album - Elgar: Piano Quintet, Violin Sonata etc)
Vincent Youmans: Tea for Two
Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli (violins)
EMI 7692202 T.2
(Album: Menuhin and Grappelli play "Jealousy" and other great standards)
Beethoven: Quartet in B flat, Op.130 (5th mvt - Cavatina)
Medici Quartet
Nimbus NI 5254 T.5
(Album - Beethoven: String Quartets Op.130 & Op.133)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (2nd mvt - Adagio Assai)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Ettore Gracis
Philips 456 901-2 Disc 2 T.11
(Album - Great pianists of the 20th Century. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli)
Britten: Elegy (from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31)
Peter Pears (tenor)/Dennis Brain (horn)/Boyd Neel String Orchestra/Benjamin Britten
(Album - British Music Collection. Benjamin Britten/William Walton)
Decca 468 801-2 T.4
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (conclusion of 3rd mvt)
Martha Argerich (piano)/Bavarian Radio SO/Kyril Kondrashin
Philips 446 673-2 T.6 (exc.)
(Album- Rachmaninoff: Concerto No.3; Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1)
