大象传媒

James Jolly with recordings by our Artist of the Week, Herbert von Karajan; today with one of his most celebrated recordings of Beethoven, the Symphony No.4 from his early 1960s cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic. Our Friday Virtuoso is Japanese violinst Midori, and there is music with connections to Good Friday and Easter from Rimsky-Korsakov (the Russian Easter Festival Overture) and the Easter Hymn from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.

10.00
Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op.36
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (conductor)
PHILIPS 442 643-2

10.14
Elgar
Harmony Music No.1
Athena Ensemble
CHANDOS CHAN 241-33

10.19
Definitive Beethoven - definitive Karajan: the classical music world's greatest composer interpreted by his great advocate. Today James Jolly introduces Beethoven's Symphony No.4 in Herbert von Karajan's recording from 1962. Karajan recorded the complete symphonies of Beethoven FOUR times. But, in many ways, his early 60s cycle stands out from the other three. It was the first recording of the Nine to be conceived, planned and sold as an integral set. The initial purchasers had to pay a subscription for the LPs, which were sent to them symphony by symphony. 49 years later, this cycle has become somewhat of a benchmark for these cornerstones of the symphonic repertoire and the Fourth is considered by many as the highlight of the cycle.

Beethoven
Symphony No.4 in B flat, Op.60
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 463 088-2

10.57
Mascagni
Easter Hymn (Cavalleria Rusticana: Act I)
Fiorenza Cossotto (soprano)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419 257-2

11.06
Ernst
Variations on the Last Rose of Summer
Midori
SNYC 074644674224

11.16
Strauss
Tod und Verklarung
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410 892-2-2.