22/09/2013
Rob Cowan presents early recordings by famous performers, including Yehudi Menuhin, Jacqueline du Pre and Leontyne Price. Plus a concerto by Lutoslawski and a Handel cantata.
At what stage in life does a musician become great? Rob Cowan poses the question and supplies some answers in remarkable early recordings by some of the most famous names in music including Yehudi Menuhin, Jacqueline Du Pr茅 and Leontyne Price.
A short season of concertos for orchestra commences with the example by this year's centenarian Witold Lutoslawski. The week's cantata is a secular work by Handel.
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Domenico Cimarosa
Il mercato di Malmantile
Conductor: Patrick Gallois. Orchestra: Jyv盲skyl盲 Sinfonia.- Cimarosa: Overtures 3.
- Naxos.
- Track 4.
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Adolf Busch
German Dances in F major for clarinet, violin and cello Op. 26c
Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Performer: Elisabeth Weber. Performer: Micha Meyer.- Adolf Busch: Clarinet & Strings.
- Avi-Music.
- Track 12.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto Grosso for two violins and strings in A minor
Orchestra: I Musici.- L'Estro Armonico.
- Philips.
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Fritz Kreisler
Recitative and scherzo
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin.- Menuhin plays virtuoso violin music.
- Biddulph.
- Track 17.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Der Ring der Polykrates: Tagesbuch der Laura
Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Austrian State Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Wilhelm Loibner.- From the Operas of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
- Cambria.
- Track 1.
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George Gershwin
Promenade
Performer: Frank Braley.- George Gershwin Piano Works.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- Track 31.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonate K 533
Performer: Christian Zacharias.- EMI.
- 648367 2.
- CD2 T11.
Broadcast
- Sun 22 Sep 2013 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3