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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.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 21 Apr 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel & Gretel – Prelude

    Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis (conductor)

    • Phillips.
    • 438 014.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Edgar – Addio, mio dolce amor

    Performers: Leontyne Price (sop) London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Downes (conductor)

    • RCA.
    • RD85999.
  • Jiří Antonín Benda

    Cantata for 3rd Sunday after Easter, 'Bald wird ihn die himmlische Jugend empfangen'

    Performers: Telemann Kammerorkester, Ludger Remy (conductor)

    • CPO.
    • CPO999 650.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Nocturnes (Nos. 2 & 3)

    Performers: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (piano)

    • Testament.
    • SBT 1262.
  • 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.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca – Vissi d'arte

    Performers: Leontyne Price (sop) Rome Opera House Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)

    • RCA.
    • 0902668883 2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin – Act 2 Waltz

    Performers: Accademia della Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    • EMI.
    • 3700652.
  • Bernardo Pasquini

    Sinfonia a quattro

    Performers: Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor)

    • Decca.
    • 470 296-2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Préludes, Book 2 – La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

    Performers: Dino Ciani (piano)

    • DG.
    • 453 070-2.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), I Musici

    • Philips.
    • 454 419-2.
  • 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.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Fountains of Rome

    Performers: Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)

    • EMI.
    • CDC 7 47316 2.
  • Francesco Cilea

    Adriana Lecouvreur – Io son l'umile ancella

    Performers: Leontyne Price (sop), orch, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)

    • RCA.
    • 09026 61236 2.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Symphonic Minutes

    Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert (conductor)

    • Chandos.
    • CHAN 9455.
  • 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.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Divertimento from 'The Fairy's Kiss'

    Performers: Chicago SO, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

    • RCA Living Stereo.
    • 09026 61957 2.
  • 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