Summer Selection14 August 2004
The journalist, writer and broadcaster Sheena McDonald makes her personal choice of music and looks ahead to the forthcoming week of Proms. Her taste runs to choral music by Bach, John Tavener, Mozart and Barber, plus jazz from the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Richter playing Prokofiev and Teresa Stratas singing Kurt Weill. Duration:3 hours |
 Playlist ADAMS Short ride in a fast machine for orchestra CITY OF BIRMINGHAM S O. Simon RATTLE - Conductor EMI CLASSICS CDC 555 051-2
PURCELL March (from 'Queen Mary's funeral music'Z.860) EQUALE JOHN ELIOT GARDINER (conductor) ERATO 4509 96553-2
BACH Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV.248 - Pt.4, no.42; Jesus richte mein Beginnen NETHERLANDS BACH SOCIETY CHORUS NETHERLANDS BACH SOCIETY BAROQUE ORCH JOS VAN VELDHOVEN (conductor) CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 20103
TAVENER Annunciation WESTMINSTER ABBEY CHOIR MARTIN BAKER (organ) MARTIN NEARY (conductor) SONY CLASSICAL SK 66613
BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 3 n E flat major, Op.55 "Eroica" - 2nd movement; Marcia funebre VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 413 778-2
PROKOFIEV Piano sonata n B flat major no.7, Op.83 - 3rd movement; Precipitato SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) PHILIPS 456 948-2
R STRAUSS 4 Letzte Lieder, AV.150 RENEE FLEMING (soprano) CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH (conductor) RCA VICTOR 09026 68539-2
ADAMS The Chairman dances - foxtrot SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EDO DE WAART (conductor) NONESUCH 7559 79453 2
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde - Act 3; Liebestod (Mild und leise, wie er lachelt) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leopold STOKOWSKI - Conductor RCA 82876 66306 2
ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO Spam-Boo-Limbo ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO ACT 9009 2
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring - Part 1 (Adoration of the Earth) KIROV ORCHESTRA ST PETERSBURG VALERY GERGIEV (Conductor) PHILIPS 468 035-2 1
MOZART Mass in C minor, K.427 "Great" - Gloria; Qui tollis peccata mundi JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RAYMOND LEPPARD (Conductor) EMI CDC 747 385-2
HANDEL No, di voi non vo' fidarmi - Italian duet no.16 for 2 sopranos and continuo, HWV.189 (setting in G major) Laura CLAYCOMB - Soprano Anna Maria PANZARELLA - Soprano LE CONCERT D'ASTREE EMMANUELLE HAIM (Harpsichord/Director) VIRGIN VERITAS 545 524 2
BARBER Agnus Dei DUNEDIN CONSORT BEN PARRY (Director) LINN RECORDS CKD 117
WEILL Was bekam des Soldaten Weit? TERESA STRATAS (Soprano) RICHARD WOITACH (Piano) NONESUCH 79019 2
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.47 - 1st movement; Moderato LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANDRE PREVIN (Conductor) RCA 82876 55493-2
PROKOFIEV Piano concerto no.1 n D flat major, Op.10 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIMON RATTLE (Conductor) ANDREI GAVRILOV (Piano) PHILIPS 456 788/9-2 2
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