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Nichola McAuliffe

Actress Nichola McAuliffe chooses some forgotten gems - music by once renowned composers and performers whose names are now less well known.

Actress Nichola McAuliffe chooses a personal selection of musical "forgotten gems": composers and performers whose fame was enormous in their lifetimes but whose names may have slipped from our 21st-century memories. The programme includes music by Meyerbeer, Graupner, Dittersdorf, Myaskovsky, Rutland Boughton, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Pauline Viardot and performances by pianist Alfred Cortot, sopranos Dora Labette, Dame Isobel Baillie and Mary Thomas and tenor William Heddle Nash.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 8 Sep 2012 15:00

Music Played

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Le Prophete - grand opera - Prelude

    Conductor: Henry LEWIS Performer: Ambrosian Opera Chorus Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    • CBS M3K-79400.
  • Pauline Viardot

    La Calandrina for voice and piano

    Performer: Christoph KELLER - Piano Performer: Karin OTT - Soprano

    • CPO 999 044-2.
  • Johann Christoph Graupner

    Concerto in G major for bassoon

    Conductor: Pal NEMETH Performer: Paolo TOGNON - Bassoon Performer: Capella Savaria

    • DYNAMIC CDS199.
  • Franz Schubert

    Litanei, transc. Godowsky for piano [orig. for voice and piano]

    Performer: Alfred CORTOT - Piano

    • PEARL GEMM CD-9386.
  • Nicolay Yakovlevich MYASKOVSKY

    Symphony no. 16 in F major Op.39 - 1st movement; Allegro vivace

    Conductor: Yevgeny SVETLANOV Performer: Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra

    • ALTO ALC1022.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Orpheus with his lute for voice and piano [text from 'Henry VIII']

    Performer: Dora LABBETTE - Soprano Performer: Unknown Orchestra

    • SYMPOSIUM 1123.
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    Quartet no. 5 in E flat major Krebs.195 for strings

    Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus String Quartet

    • BERLIN CLASSICS 0092612BC.
  • Rutland Boughton

    The Immortal Hour - opera - Act 1

    Conductor: Alan G MELVILLE Performer: English Chamber Orchestra

    • HYPERION CDA-66101/2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The House of Life for voice and piano - Silent noon

    Performer: Ernest LUSH - Piano Performer: William Heddle Nash - Tenor

    • DUTTON CDLX-7237.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pierrot lunaire Op.21 for voice and ensemble - Part 2: Nacht; Gebet an Pierrot; Raub; Rote

    Conductor: David ATHERTON Performer: Mary THOMAS - Soprano Performer: London Sinfonietta

    • DECCA 425-626 2.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Symphony in B flat major Op.18`1

    Conductor: Matthias BAMERT Performer: London Mozart Players

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9234.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Joshua - oratorio in 3 acts - Act 3; O, Had I Jubal's lyre [aria, Achsah]

    Conductor: Charles PRENTICE Performer: Isobel BAILLIE - Soprano Performer: Unknown Orchestra

    • PEARL GEMM-CD 9934.
  • Le CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES

    Concerto Op.posth.'2 for violin and orchestra - Rondo allegro)

    Conductor: Kevin MALLON Performer: Qian Zhen - Violin Performer: Toronto Chamber Orchestra

    • NAXOS 8.557322.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Prelude to 'Le Prophete'

  • Pauline Viardot

    La Calandrina

  • Johann Christoph Graupner

    Concerto in G major for bassoon

  • Franz Schubert

    Litanei (transcribed by Godowsky for piano)

  • Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky

    First movement from Symphony No.16 in F major

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Orpheus with his lute

  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    String Quartet No.5 in E flat major

  • Rutland Boughton

    Act 1 of 'The Immortal Hour'

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The House of Life - Silent noon

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pierrot lunaire - Part 2

  • Muzio Clementi

    Symphony in B flat major Op.18 No.1

  • George Frideric Handel

    Aria 'O, Had I Jubal's lyre' from Act 3 of 'Joshua'

  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne

    Violin Concerto Op. post. '2

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  • Sat 8 Sep 2012 15:00

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