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Music with Spoken Words

James Jolly's selection includes music with spoken words by Copland, Walton and Toch. His vintage artist is Barry Tuckwell, in recordings of works by Koechlin and Strauss.

James Jolly's selection of music includes settings of spoken words by Copland, Walton and Toch. His vintage artist is Barry Tuckwell, in celebrated recordings of works by Koechlin and Richard Strauss. And the week's Telemann cantata, for the 12th Sunday after Trinity, is Durchesuche dich,TWV1:399 from the new cycle of recordings by Bergen Barokk.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 11 Aug 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Theatre Overture

    Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    • Chandos.
    • CHAN 9811.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Durchsuche dich, O Stolzer Geist TWV1:399

    Performers: Bergen Barokk

    • Toccata Classics.
    • TOCC 0074.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in C minor, Wq65/31

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • DG.
    • 479 0356.
  • Charles Koechlin

    Horn Sonata

    Performers: Barry Tuckwell (horn) Daniel Blumenthal (piano)

    • ASV.
    • CD DCA 716.
  • William Walton (arr Christopher Palmer)

    Hamlet – A Shakespeare Scenario Parts I-V

    Performers: Sir John Gielgud, Academy of St Martin In The Fields, Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • Chandos.
    • CHAN 8842.
  • Franz Schubert (trans Franz Liszt)

    Lebe wohl

    Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

    • Decca.
    • 414 575-2.
  • Ernst Toch

    Geographical Fugue

    Performers: Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Sarah Walker, James Jolly, Martin Handley (voices)

    • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 recording.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Songs Without Words Op. 19 Nos 1 & 5

    Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • Sony Classical.
    • SK 66511.
  • Aaron Copland

    Lincoln Portrait

    Performers: James Earl Jones (narrator) Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz (conductor)

    • Delos.
    • DE 3140.
  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No 2

    Performers: Barry Tuckwell (horn) London Symphony Orchestra, István Kértesz (conductor)

    • Decca.
    • SXL 6285.
  • Henry Purcell

    Voluntary in D minor for Double Organ

    Performers: John Butt (organ)

    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMU 907103.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No. 2, 2nd movt – Allegro Molto

    Performers: USSR State Symphony, Valeri Polyansky

    • Chandos.
    • CHAN 9665.
  • Karl Weigl

    Old Vienna

    Performers: Berlin RSO, Alun Francis (conductor)

    • BIS.
    • BIS-CD-1167.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Neue Liebe Op.19a No.4

    Performers: Dame Janet Baker, Geoffrey Parsons

    • EMI.
    • 9 03788 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 11 Aug 2013 09:00