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Rob Cowan introduces music by 大象传媒 Radio 3's Composers of the Year: Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. Including a Haydn symphony and Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer.

Rob Cowan introduces music by 大象传媒 Radio 3's Composers of the Year: Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Including a Haydn Symphony especially for the morning, Mendelssohn's Hear my Prayer including the popular O for the Wings of a Dove, Purcell's Bell Anthem in a Radio 3 recording with Clare College, Cambridge, and the winner of Breakfast's Handelbars, where listeners requested their favourite Handel aria.

Throughout the day there are the thoughts of a huge variety of people who love the music of these four composers - including Sting and Roy Strong on Purcell, Julia Neuberger on Handel, Richard Holmes and Patricia Routledge on Haydn, plus Henry Goodman and Sue McGregor on Mendelssohn.

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Thu 31 Dec 2009 07:00
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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song Without Words Op.19 No.3

    Performer: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • SONY SK 66511.

  • Henry Purcell

    Rejoice in the Lord Alway (The Bell Anthem)

    Performer: Richard Egarr (organ) Performer: Clare College Choir Performer: Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Tim Brown (director)

    • 大象传媒 Recording (not commercially available).

  • George Frideric Handel

    Chaconne (with 21 variations)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67736.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Verdi prati (Ruggiero)

    Performer: Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Performer: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR 16025.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Arranger: Liszt / Horowitz Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

    • SONY 88697575002-15.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 88 in G

    Performer: Orchestra of the 18th Century Performer: Frans Br眉ggen (conductor)

    • PHILIP 462 602-2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Characteristic Piece Op.7 No.2

    Performer: Dana Protopopescu (piano)

    • PROFIL PH 08027.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony

    Performer: London Baroque

    • BIS CD-1165.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture: Ruy Blas

    Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Performer: Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

    • QUERSTAND VKJK 0507.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ungl眉cksel'ge - Ich rase - Du r枚ter als die Kirsche (Acis & Galatea)

    Arranger: Mendelssohn Performer: Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass) Performer: NDR Chor Performer: G枚tttingen Festival Orchestra Performer: Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

    • CARUS 83.420.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in C Major Hob. XVI/50

    Performer: Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 67376 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music (G Major Suite)

    Performer: Orchestra of St. Luke's Performer: Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • TELARC CD-80279.

  • Henry Purcell

    When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)

    Arranger: John Lewis Performer: The Modern Jazz Quartet and The Swingle Singers

    • PHILIPS 824 545-2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    H枚r mein Bitten (Hear my Prayer)

    Performer: Quintin Beer (treble) Performer: Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge Performer: John Robinson (organ) Performer: David Hill (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA 67558.

  • Lloyd Moore

    Scherzino (New Song Without Words)

    Performer: Andrew Zolinsky (piano)

    • 大象传媒 Recording (not commercially available).

  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Performer: Ian Bostridge (tenor) Performer: Kate Royal (soprano) Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Performer: Harry Bicket (conductor)

    • EMI 0946 3 82243 2.

  • Henry Purcell

    Funeral Music for Queen Mary

    Performer: Taverner Consort, Choir & Players Performer: Andrew Parrott (conductor)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS VC5 45159-2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No.1 in G Minor

    Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Performer: Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

    • DECCA 468 600-2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio (Water Music)

    Arranger: Loussier) Performer: Jacques Loussier (piano) Performer: Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac (bass) Performer: Andr茅 Arpino (drums)

    • TELARC CD 83544.

Broadcast

  • Thu 31 Dec 2009 07:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3