Verdi 200: Kings and Queens
Rob Cowan presents music featuring representations of kings and queens. Plus a preview of a week celebrating Verdi, a concerto for orchestra by Bartok and a Telemann cantata.
Inspired by Verdi's Un Giorno di Regno, Kings and queens are celebrated and represented in music in various ways in Rob Cowan's Sunday selection of music. He looks forward to a week celebrating Verdi with other aspects of the composer's music, including a famous recording of Three Sacred Pieces: Laudi alla Virgine Maria. In addition, from the stately elegance of Henry Purcell to the romantic prism of Korngold he looks at musical depictions of royalty through the ages. Plus the week's concerto for orchestra is by Bartok, and the Telemann cantata for the day is Es ist ein schlechter Ruhm (TVWV 1:506).
Last on
More episodes
Music Played
-
Giuseppe Verdi
Il Corsaro
Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Verdi: Il Corsaro.
- Philips.
- 1.
-
Gabriel Faur茅
Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor
Performer: Jean Doyen.- Faure: L'Oeuvre pour Piano.
- Erato.
- 7.
-
Ludwig van Beethoven
King Stephen Overture
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Beethoven: The Symphonies.
- Decca.
- 2.
-
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 5 in D major
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Handel: Concerti grossi, op. 6 nos. 1-6.
- Decca.
- 5.
-
Daniel Fran莽ois Esprit Auber
Overture to "The Crown Diamonds"
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- French Opera Highlights.
- Mercury.
- 2.
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marriage of Figaro: Voi che sapete
Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kazushi Ono.- Rejoice! The best of Joyce DiDonato.
- Erato.
- 15.
-
Georg Philipp Telemann
Es ist ein schlechter Ruhm (TVWV 1:506; B盲renreiter No. 53)
Conductor: Bergen Barokk. Singer: Mona Julsrud. Performer: Hans Knut Sveen. Performer: Frode Thorsen. Performer: Markku Luolajan-Mikkola.- Telemann: Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst Volume 3.
- Toccata.
- 7.
-
Henry Purcell
Funeral Music for Queen Mary: March and Canzona Z.860
Ensemble: Consort of Sackbuts from Symphoniae Sacrae. Conductor: George Guest.- Purcell: Music for the Chapel Royal etc..
- Decca.
- 7.
-
Carl Loewe
贰谤濒办枚苍颈驳
Singer: Hans Hotter. Performer: Walter Martin.- Hans Hotter, Walter Martin: Liederabend.
- Orfeo.
- 17.
-
脡douard Lalo
Le Roi d'Ys Overture
Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.- Ouvertures Francaises.
- Decca.
- 1.
-
Giuseppe Verdi
Un Giorno di Regno: Compagnoni di Parigi
Singer: Renato Cappechi. Orchestra: Orchestra of RAI Milan. Conductor: Alfredo Simonetto.- Un Giorno di Regno.
- Warner Fonit.
- 5.
-
Franz Schubert
Die K枚nig von Thule
Singer: Agnes Giebel. Performer: Felix de Nobel.- Schubert: Lieder/Giebel.
- Teldec.
- 7.
-
William Walton
Belshazzar's Feast: Then sing aloud to God our strength
Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Walton: Belshazzer's Feast and Symphony No. 1.
- LSO Live.
- 10.
-
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Elizabeth and Essex theme
Orchestra: Victor Young Orchestra. Conductor: Victor Young.- Classic Hollywood Film Themes.
- Decca.
- 1.
-
John Bull
The King's Hunt
Performer: Raphael Puyana.- The Golden Age of Harpsichord Music.
- Mercury.
- 8.
-
Engelbert Humperdinck
K枚nigskinder: Verdorben! Gestorben!
Singer: Hermann Prey. Choir: Berlin Mozart Choir. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Horst Stein.- Hermann Prey: A Life in Song.
- EMI.
- 18.
-
Arthur Bliss
Welcome The Queen
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- Decca.
- 436 403-2.
- 8.
-
Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
窜补茂蝉
Ensemble: Ausonia. Conductor: Frederic Haas.- Les Musiques retrouvees de Versailles.
- Alpha.
- Track 22.
-
B茅la Bart贸k
Concerto for Orchestra
Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zolt谩n Kocsis.- Bartok: Concerto, etc..
- Hungaroton.
- 1.
-
Giuseppe Verdi
Three Sacred Pieces: Laudi alla Vergine Maria
Choir: Chor der St. Hedwigs鈥怟athedrale Berlin. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.- DG.
- 429 076-2.
-
Sergey Rachmaninov
Blazhen Muzh
Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- EMI Classics.
- 5 56752 2.
- 4.
Broadcast
- Sun 6 Oct 2013 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3