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Music for Easter Sunday

Rob Cowan presents music for Easter Sunday, including the first of a new season of Bach cantatas: Der Himmel Lacht! Die Erde Jubilieret, BVW31. Plus Rebel, Szymanowski and Xenakis.

Rob Cowan presents music for Easter Sunday including the first of a new season of Sunday Morning Bach Cantatas, starting with BVW 31 Der Himmel Lacht! Die Erde Jubilieret. Other music includes Les Caract猫res de la Danse by Jean-F茅ry Rebel, Allah Akbar from Szymanowski's Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin, Six Chansons Gr猫ques by Xenakis, for solo piano, and Vaughan Williams' Phantasy Quintet.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 8 Apr 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Alexander Scriabin

    脡tude op. 8, no. 3 in B minor

    Performers: Lang Lang

    • Telarc.
    • 80582.
  • Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel

    Les Caracteres de la Danse

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski (cond.)

    • Erato/MusiFrance.
    • 2292 45974-2.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin: 1Allah Akbar

    Performers: Botstein, London Philharmonic Orchestra

    • Telarc.
    • 80567.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BVW 31 Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubiliert

    Performers: Ton Koopman (cond.) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Schlick, Wessel, deMay, Mertens

    • Erato.
    • 98536.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance No1 in G major for violin and orchestra

    Performers: Gidon Kramer / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    • Elatus.
    • 749773.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude in D flat major and Fugue in D flat major (op. 87)

    Performers: Alexander Melkinov

    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 902019.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon Septimi Toni no.1 & no.2

    Performers: Philadelphia Brass Ensemble

    • Columbia Masterworks.
    • 92754.
  • Franz Schubert

    An den Mond D.296

    Performers: Matthias Goerne, Andreas Haefliger

    • Decca.
    • 452917.
  • Auric/Milhaud/Poulenc/Tailleferre/Honneger

    Les Mari茅s de la Tour Eiffel

    Arranger: M. Constant Performers: Ensemble Erwartung, Bernard Desgraupes (cond.)

    • Marco Polo.
    • K. 8.223788.
  • Iannis Xenakis

    Six Chansons Grecques

    Performers: Nikolaos Samaltanos

    • Saphir.
    • LVC 1168.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Prelude and Fugue in C Minor

    Performers: Erwin Horn

    • AVC.
    • 150 071-2.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga Op 56

    Performers: Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (cond.)

    • Decca.
    • 4782122.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Sonata Op.166 for Oboe & Piano

    Performers: Hansj枚rg Schellenberger (oboe), Ralf Koenen (piano)

    • Denon.
    • CO73 088.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Phantasy Quintet

    Performers: Nash Ensemble

    • Hyperion.
    • 67313.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Ein Magd, Ein Dieneren

    Performers: Elly Ameling

    • EMI.
    • 6 79073 2.
  • Richard Wagner - Rome Narrative (from Tannhauser)

    Performers: Lauritz Melchior (cond. Coates)

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia 鈥 tone poem 鈥 Op. 26

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (cond.)

    • SOMM.
    • 093.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude no.3 in G Major and Fugue no.3 in G Major (op. 87)

    Performers: Alexander Melkinov

    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 902019.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Apr 2012 09:00