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Wagner 200

In the bicentenary week of Wagner, Rob Cowan plays some personal favourites, including selections from Tristan und Isolde and Götterdämmerung. The week's Telemann cantata is Drei sind, die da zeugen im Himmel TWV 1:377 in a performance directed by Hermann Max.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 26 May 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Spanish Dance No. 5

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Ataúlfo Argenta

    • Decca.
    • 443 580-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni – Act 3, Il mio tesoro

    Performer: Stuart Burrows (tenor), London Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti

    • Decca.
    • 478 3703.
  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin – Act 3, Prelude

    Performer: NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini

    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 88765411932.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Sonatine for Piano in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 No. 1

    Performer: Glenn Gould (piano)

    • Sony Classical.
    • SM2K 52 654.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Drei sind, die da zeugen im Himmel TWV 1:377

    Performer: Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Kleine Konzert, Veronika Winter, Lena Susanne Norin, Jan Kobow, Ekkehard Abele. Track: Track 1-8

    • CPO.
    • 7771952.
  • Francis Poulenc

    L'invitation au château – Acts 1 and 2

    Performer: Emmanuel Strosser (piano), David Grimal (violin), Romain Guyot (clarinet)

    • EMI.
    • 5 66843 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacrée et danse profane

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic members, Serge Baudo, Karel Patras (harp)

    • Supraphon.
    • 11 0658-2.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Walküre – The Ride of the Valkyries

    Performer: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky

    • Warner Classics.
    • 2564 69890-5.
  • Richard Wagner

    Götterdämmerung – 'Immolation' scene

    Performer: Helen Traubel (soprano), NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini

    • EMI.
    • 5 62939 2.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde – Act 3, Prelude

    Performer: Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski

    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 88765435042-37.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde – Act 3, Scene 1 extract

    Performer: Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Herbert Janssen (baritone), Orchestras, Erich Leinsdorf, Roberto Kinsky

    • Sony Classical.
    • 88765435042-33.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger – Prelude

    Performer: Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

    • CBS Maestro.
    • M2YK 46466.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Una voce poco fa

    Performer: Brigitte Fassbaender, Munich Philharmonic, Gerd Albrecht

    • EMI.
    • 6 829682.
  • Henri Dutilleux

    Tout un monde lointain …

    Performer: Godfried Hoogeveen (cello), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    • Concertgebouw Live.
    • RCO12004.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Te Deum

    Performer: Maria Stader (soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Peter Lagger (bass), Chorus of the German Opera, Berlin, Berlin P O

    • DG.
    • 423 127-2.
  • Herbert Howells

    Sonatina

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell

    • Guild.
    • GMCD 7119.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No. 7 in A Major

    Performer: Philippe Graffin (violin), Claire Desert (piano)

    • Onyx.
    • ONYX 2039.

Broadcast

  • Sun 26 May 2013 09:00

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