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Animals

Rob Cowan marks the start of Radio 3's Piano Season by choosing recordings by Vladimir Horowitz. Plus music inspired by animals, by Vaughan Williams, Bartok, Stravinsky and Brahms.

Rob Cowan marks the Piano Season on the 大象传媒 by selecting some of the greatest recordings by Vladimir Horowitz. He also explores music inspired by animals from composers as varied as Vaughan Williams, Bartok, Stravinsky and Brahms. And this week's Bach cantata No. 51 showcases the glorious voice of Edith Mathis in a celebrated recording by Karl Richter and the Munich Bach Orchestra.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Vladimir Horowitz

    Danse Exentrique

    • The Original Jacket Collection: The Young Horowitz.
    • Sony.
  • William Boyce

    Symphony No. 4 in F

    • Symphonies Nos. 1 - 8.
    • Classics For Pleasure.
  • Carl Czerny

    Variations on the aria, La Ricordanza, Op. 33

    • The Original Jacket Collection: The Horowitz Collection.
    • Sony.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jauchezt Gott in allen Landen (Praise God in All Lands) BWV 51

    • Kantaten BWV 51, 93, 129.
    • Archiv.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in G, Op. 40

    • David Oistrakh: The Essential.
    • BMG.
  • Arnold Bax

    3 Pieces for Small Orchestra: Dance in the Sunlight

    • Banks of Green Willow.
    • EMI.
  • Rodion Shchedrin

    Torero (Carmen Suite)

    Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra.
    • Shchedrin: Carmen Suite: Russian National Orchestra, Pletnev.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Track 9.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk Songs For Four Seasons - The Sheep Shearing

    • Folk Songs For Four Seasons.
    • Albion Records.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Mikrokosmos, Book 6 - From the Diary of a Fly

    • Complete Solo Piano Music - Gyorgy Sandor.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Renard

    • Ansermet - The First Decca Recordings.
    • Decca.
  • Josef Suk

    Fairy Tales - The Games of Swans and Peacocks

    • Asrael  A Summer's Tale  The Ripening  Eipolgue  Fairy Tale  Praga.
    • Supraphon.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Song of the Flea

    • Feodor Chaliapin Song Book.
    • Preiser.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Marienwurmchen (The Ladybird)

    • Volkslieder. Volks-Kinderlieder.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Austrian Village Swallows

    • Les Annees folles.
    • EMI.
  • Maurice Ravel

    L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges - closing section

    • L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges. L'Heure Espagnole.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Gaetano Guadagni

    Pensa a serbarmi, o cara

    • Arias for Guadagni.
    • Hyperion.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Variations of a them by Corelli "in the style of Tartini"

    • Homage To Fritz Kreisler.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Berwald

    The Queen of Golconda Overture

    • Berwald: Orchestral Works.
    • EMI.
  • Andr茅 Previn

    Four Outings For Brass

    • Street Song.
    • Chandos.
  • Arne Dorumsgaard & Anonymous

    The Foggy, Foggy Dew

    • Heart Of Oak.
    • Classics For Pleasure.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36

    • The Original Jacket Collection: Horowitz Plays Rachmaninov.
    • Sony.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Sep 2012 09:00