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Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Iain looks at different approaches to musical sanity. Including music by Schoenberg and performances by David Helfgott and Vladimir Horowitz.

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Iain looks at different approaches to musical sanity.

Including:

Schulz: Largo
Thomas Bloch (Glass Harmonica)
Naxos 8.555295

Schumann: Piano Quintet (2nd mvt)
Menahem Pressler (piano)
Emerson Quartet
DG 4458482

Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb,
Peter Barley (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury (director)
Argo 4332152

Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy (Cluster of Galaxies)
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra
EVIDENCE ECD220362

Johann Strauss: Schnee-Gl枚ckchen, Op 143
Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
MARCO POLO 8223207

Rachmaninov: Prelude in G, Op 32 No 5
David Helfgott (piano)
RCA 74321403782

Scarlatti: Sonata in A, L483
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Favourite Encores
CBS CD42305

Joni Mitchell: Twisted
Asylum K253002

Ivor Gurney: When Smoke stood up from Ludlow
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Simon Crawford Philips (piano)
Dante Quartet
Signum

Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (closing scene in Bedlam)
Deborah York (soprano)
Bryn Terfel, Ian Bostridge (tenors)
Monteverdi Choir
LSO
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG 4596482

Smetana: String Quartet No 2
The Linsay String Quartet
ASV CDDCA777

Wolf: Manuel Venegas
Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo-soprano), Josef Protschka, Christoph Spath, Kor-Jan Dusseljee (tenors), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Oliver Widmer (baritone)
Stuttgart Chamber Choir
Hartmut Holl (conductor)
Capriccio 10362CAP

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (part 3)
Christine Sch盲fer (soprano)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 457630

Sorabji: Opus clavicembalisticum/Introito
John Ogdon (piano)
Altarus 9075.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 7 Oct 2007 10:00

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 Oct 2007 10:00