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Farewells

There are many ways to say goodbye. In his last Sunday morning programme, Iain Burnside contemplates some of those ways with the help of Beethoven, Wagner and Julie Andrews.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 25 Apr 2010 10:00

Music Played

  • Cole Porter

    Every time we say good-bye

    Performers: Cleo Laine (voice), Laurie Holloway (piano), Allen Walley (bass)

    • K West Knew CD101.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat major op 47 (3rd + 4th movements)

    Performer: Menahem Pressler (piano), Emerson Quartet

    • DG 445 848 2.
  • Hubert Parry

    Songs of Farewell: At the round earth's imagined corners

    Performers: Choir of St George鈥檚 Chapel Windsor, Christopher Robinson (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA66273.
  • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: David Holzmann (piano)

    • Centaur CRC 2102.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Farewell Symphony no. 45 in F? minor 'Farewell'

    Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    • L鈥橭iseau Lyre 443 777 2.
  • Richard Wagner - Die Walkure: Wotan's farewell

    Performers: Bryn Terfel (baritone - Wotan), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Travelling Song from12 songs ('A Farewell to St Petersburg')

    Performer: Serfei Leiferkus (baritone), Semyon Skigin (piano)

    • Conifer 75605 51264 2.
  • Bob Dylan

    Farewell Angelina

    Performer: Joan Baez (voice + guitar)

    • Music of the World CD12507.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Cello Sonata op 65 (1st movement)

    Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)

  • Franz Schubert

    Rellstab Leider (Abscheid)

    Performers: Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano)

    • Decca 425 612 2.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Messe de la Pentecost (Entr茅e - Les langues de feu)

    Performer: Thomas Trotter (organ of Eglise Coll茅giale Saint-Pierre de Douai)

    • Decca 436 400 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cosi fan tutte KV 588 (Act I: Soave sia il vento)

    Performer: Soile Isokoski (soprano - Fiordiligi), Monica Groop (soprano - Dorabella), Huub Claessens (baritone - Don Alfonso), La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

    • Brilliant Classics 99555 CD1.
  • Dudley Moore

    Goodbye-ee

    Performer: Dudley Moore (voice, piano), Peter Cook (voice), Chris Karan (drums) Pete McGurk or Peter Morgan (bass)

    • Goodbye-ee.
    • Decca F12158.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 Apr 2010 10:00