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The News

Suzy Klein looks at musical connections to the news and current affairs across the centuries. Mark Swartzentruber introduces a vintage recording gem, plus your emails, a new release and Suzy's choice of the week's live concerts.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 24 Oct 2010 10:00

Music Played

  • James Rhodes

    La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune from Preludes, Book II

    Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

    • DG427 391-2.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    "Sinfonia spirituosa" in D major TWV 44:1 for Two Violins, Viola and Basso continuo

    Performer: Musica Antiqua K枚ln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    • DG 471 492-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Allegro in A minor, 'Lebensst眉rme' D 947

    Performer: Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne (piano duet)

    • HyperionCDA67665.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Little Fugue in G minor BWV 278

    Arranger: Bullard/Patykula/Mela Performer: John Bullard (five-string banjo), John Patykula (guitar), Neil Gladd (mandolin)

    • TROY 255.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto, Op 47, I Allegro moderato

    Performer: Vadim Repin (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)

    • Erato 4509 98537 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 107 "Reformation"

    Performer: Netherlands Radio Chamber orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)

    • Emergo EC3919-2.
  • Edgar Sampson/Benny Goodman/Chick Webb

    Stompin' at the Savoy

    Performer: Benny Goodman and his Orchestra

    • ND90684.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    I Pagliacci, "No! Pagliccio non son"

    Performer: Enrico Caruso (tenor), Victor Orchestra with unnamed conductor

    • Nimbus NI 7801.
  • Paul Hindemith

    News of the Day, Act 3, scene 10: First Dance Number

    Performer: K枚lner Rundfunkorchester, Jan Latham-K枚nig (conductor)

    • Wergo 6192-2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, ii Molto vivace

    Performer: NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (conductor)

    • RCA GD60256.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    No毛ls pour les instruments, (O Cr茅ateur, Une jeune pucelle, O霉 s'en vont ces gais bergers?

    Performer: Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie (conductor)

    • Dorian DOR 90180.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Oct 2010 10:00