21/04/2013
James Jolly's selection celebrates the "birth of Rome" with music by Puccini, Pasquini, and Marcello. His archive artist is Leontyne Price, and this week's cantata by Georg Anton Benda is Bald wird ihn die himmlische Jugend empfangen.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel & Gretel – Prelude
Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis (conductor)
- Phillips.
- 438 014.
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Giacomo Puccini
Edgar – Addio, mio dolce amor
Performers: Leontyne Price (sop) London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Downes (conductor)
- RCA.
- RD85999.
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Jiřà AntonÃn Benda
Cantata for 3rd Sunday after Easter, 'Bald wird ihn die himmlische Jugend empfangen'
Performers: Telemann Kammerorkester, Ludger Remy (conductor)
- CPO.
- CPO999 650.
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Gabriel Fauré
Nocturnes (Nos. 2 & 3)
Performers: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (piano)
- Testament.
- SBT 1262.
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Franz Schubert
Gesang der Geister über den Wasser, D714
Performers: Monteverdi Choir; Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- Soli Deo Gloria.
- SDG 703.
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Giacomo Puccini
Tosca – Vissi d'arte
Performers: Leontyne Price (sop) Rome Opera House Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)
- RCA.
- 0902668883 2.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin – Act 2 Waltz
Performers: Accademia della Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (conductor)
- EMI.
- 3700652.
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Bernardo Pasquini
Sinfonia a quattro
Performers: Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor)
- Decca.
- 470 296-2.
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Claude Debussy
Préludes, Book 2 – La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Performers: Dino Ciani (piano)
- DG.
- 453 070-2.
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Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor
Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), I Musici
- Philips.
- 454 419-2.
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George Frideric Handel
Il trionfo del tiempo e del disinganno – Lascia la spina
Performers: Cecilia Bartoli (mez) Suonatori della Gioiosa Marca
- Decca.
- 455 981-2.
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Ottorino Respighi
The Fountains of Rome
Performers: Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- EMI.
- CDC 7 47316 2.
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Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur – Io son l'umile ancella
Performers: Leontyne Price (sop), orch, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)
- RCA.
- 09026 61236 2.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Symphonic Minutes
Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert (conductor)
- Chandos.
- CHAN 9455.
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Robert Schumann
Mignon Op 79 No 28 + Volksliedchen Op 51 No 2 + Schöne Weige meiner Leiden, Op 24 No 5
Performers: Leontyne Price (sop), David Garvey (piano)
- RCA.
- 5594.
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Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento from 'The Fairy's Kiss'
Performers: Chicago SO, Fritz Reiner (conductor)
- RCA Living Stereo.
- 09026 61957 2.
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trad American
He's got the whole world in His hands
Performers: Leontyne Price
- RCA.
- 09026 63908 2.
Broadcast
- Sun 21 Apr 2013 09:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3