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Opus Ones

Rob Cowan's choice of music contrasts works numbered 'Opus One' by a variety of composers. Plust the latest Bach cantata: Widerstehe doch der Sunde (Just resist sin), BWV54.

Rob Cowan explores the breadth of music covered by the designation "Opus One" by composers as varied as Beethoven, Webern, Sibelius and Bartok. A short season of double concertos begins with Mozart's K364 Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, and the week's Bach cantata is Widerstehe doch der Sünde (Just resist sin) BWV 54.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 3 Mar 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Anthony Collins

    Vanity Fair

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra, John Wilson

    • Dutton.
    • CDLX 7162.
    • 2.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ragtime for 11 instruments

    Performer: Boston Symphony Chamber Players

    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 463 667-2.
    • 9.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Overture Roman Carnival

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux

    • Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • CSO90/12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Widerstehe doch der Sünde (Just resist sin) BWV 54

    Performer: English Baroque Soloists, Nathalie Stuzmann, John Eliot Gardiner

    • Solo Deo Gloria.
    • 843183012022.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39

    Performer: Van Cliburn (piano)

    • RCA.
    • 88765407232.
  • Jules Massenet

    Le Vierge

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux, Hilary Robinson (cello)

    • EMI.
    • CDM 5 65150 2.
    • 8.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Two Fragments from The Song of Rowland, Op. 30

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Kruger

    • Bridge.
    • 9089.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Jouluvirsi, Op. 1 (No. 4)

    Performer: Helsinki University Chorus, Matti Hyökki

    • Finlandia.
    • 0927-49774-2.
  • Anton Webern

    Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 457 637-2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio Op. 1, No. 1

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Jacob Lateiner (piano)

    • RCA.
    • LSC-2770.
  • Béla Bartók

    Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 1

    Performer: Andor Foldes (piano), RIAS-Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay

    • Audite.
    • 21.407.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures – Sabbath Morning at Sea

    Performer: Brigitta Svenden (soprano), Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, John Carewe

    • Forlane.
    • UCD 16642.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in C BWV 595 (Allegro)

    Performer: Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

    • Erato.
    • 4509-96744-2.
    • 13.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, Koechel 364 for violin, viola and orchestra

    Performers: Thomas Brandis (violin), Giusto Cappone (viola), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm

    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 474 424-2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Romance in F for cello and piano (1883)

    Performers: Peter Wöpke (cello), Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)

    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 9249/11.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Mar 2013 09:00