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Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Purcell's Music for a while, Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and Bach's Mass in B minor.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Counter-tenor Andreas Scholl together with Accademia Bizantina directed by Stefano Montanari perform Purcell's Music for a while, violinist Nicola Benedetti and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton perform Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending, and the opening of the Gloria from Bach's Mass in B minor is performed by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 15 Jun 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.

    Performer: Russian National Orchestra Performer: Mikhail Pletnev [conductor]

    • DG 439 892-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for piano (K.310) in A minor

    Performer: Helene Grimaud [piano]

    • DG 477 8766.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While (Oedipus, King of Thebes)

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Justin Taylor.

    Performer: Andreas Scholl [counter tenor] Performer: Accademia Bizantina Performer: Stefano Montanari [leader]

    • Decca 478 2262.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for violin and orchestra (RV.356) (Op.3`6) in A minor (transcribed: A Balsom)

    Performer: Alison BALSOM [trumpet] Performer: Scottish Ensemble Performer: Jonathan MORTON [director]

    • EMI 456 0942.
  • John Rutter

    Gloria: 1st mvt

    Performer: St Albans Cathedral Choir Performer: Andrew LUCAS [conductor] Performer: Tom WINPENNY [Organ] Performer: Ensemble Dechorum

    • Naxos 8.572653.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Notturno from String Quartet No 2

    Performer: Borodin Quartet

    • CHAN 9965.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D major BWV 850

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim [piano]

    • Warner 2564 61553-2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 97 (H.1.97) in C major, 4th movement; Finale

    Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles Performer: Marc Minkowski [conductor]

    • Na茂ve V 5176.
  • Franz Schubert

    An den Mond D193

    Performer: Elizabeth Watts [sop] Performer: Roger Vignoles [piano]

    • RCA 88697329322.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

    Arranger: Stokowski Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa [conductor]

    • Philips 432 092-2.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies [piano]

    • Label TBC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C 'Jupiter': Final mvt 鈥 molto allegro

    Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden Performer: Sir Colin Davis [conductor]

    • Philips 410 046-2.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of the Bumble Bee

    Performer: Christian Lindberg [trombone] Performer: Ronan Pontinen [piano]

    • BIS CD 258.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Hornpipe from Water Music Suite HWV 349/350

    Performer: The English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock [conductor]

    • Archiv 471 723-2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Adagio (2nd mvt ) from Concerto for Piano in A minor

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes [piano] Performer: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Dmitri Kitayenko [conductor]

    • EMI 7243 5 74789 2 2.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Bellerophon: end of act 5

    Performer: Les Talens Lyriques Performer: Namur Chamber Choir Performer: Christophe Rousset [conductor]

    • Aparte AP015.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio in B op 8: 2nd mvt Scherzo

    Performer: Andre Previn [piano] Performer: Victoria Mullova [violin] Performer: Heinrich Schiff [cello]

    • Philips 442 123-2.
  • Trad

    Down in the River to pray; Appalachian barn dance

    Performer: The Cleveland baroque orchestra Performer: Jeannette Sorrell [director]

    • Avie AV2205.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti [violin] Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Andrew Litton [conductor]

    • DG 4763399.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Finale (Furiant) from Czech Suite Op 39

    Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Performer: Antal Dorati [conductor]

    • Decca 414 370-2.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: Polyphony Performer: Stephen Layton [director]

    • Hyperion CDA67543.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Fantasy on Corelli's 'La Folia'

    Arranger: Red Priest Performer: Red Priest

    • Dorian DOR 90305.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Opening of Gloria from Mass in B minor BWV232

    Performer: The Monteverdi Choir Performer: English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner

    • Archiv 415 512-2.
  • Richard Wagner - To the evening star

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt [cello] Performer: Cecile Licad [piano]

  • Michel Camilo

    Tropical Jam from Suite for Piano, Strings and harp

    Performer: Michel Camilo [piano] Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra

    • Leonard Slatkin [conductor].

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