大象传媒

Sarah Walker presents highlights from 大象传媒 Radio 3 broadcasts of music by its four Composers of the Year in 2009.

Haydn: Symphony No 95 in C minor
Concentus Musicus Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

10.25am
Purcell: Sonata in 4 Parts, Z807
Concordia

10.35am
Harpsichord player Laurence Cummings performs Handel in the composer's London home, now the Handel House Museum, and talks to Catherine Bott about the dance suites.

10.45am
Handel: Concerto grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 2
English Concert
Alfredo Bernardini (oboe/director)
Recorded at the Foundling Museum in London

11.00am
Haydn: Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo (Kleine Orgelmesse)
Maria Zadori (soprano)
Levente Gyongyosi (organ)
Purcell Choir
Orfeo Orchestra
Gyorgy Vashegyi (conductor)

Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Esterhazy Castle.

11.20am
Purcell: Suite (The Fairy Queen)
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr (director/harpsichord)

11.30am
Mendelssohn: Octet
Royal Quartet and Psophos String Quartet (former 大象传媒 Radio 3 New Generation Artists)

12.00am
Music Matters: Mendelssohn in Scotland
In the summer of 1829, Felix Mendelssohn visited Scotland on a walking tour with his friend Karl Klingemann. Tom Service follows in his footsteps on a journey that would provide the inspiration for both the Hebrides Overture and the Scottish Symphony. Accompanied by Scottish historian John Purser, he visits the ruins of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Oban, Fort William, Mull and sails to Staffa to see Fingal's Cave for himself.

12.45pm
Handel Passions
Author Janice Galloway and actor Dominic West tell Michael Berkeley about their favourite Handelian moments.

1.00pm
Sarah Walker introduces chamber music by the Composers of the Year.

Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark)
Ebene Quartet

1.20pm
Handel: Keyboard Suite No 5 in E, HWV430
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)

Recorded at the Handel House Museum.

1.45pm
Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F (1838)
Daniel Hope (violin)
Sebastian Knauer (piano)

Recorded at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

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