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Music and Prayer

Rob Cowan's selection focuses on prayer, with Massenet, Barber, MacMillan and Hovhaness. Plus Mozart's Symphony No 36 (Linz) and Bach's Cello Suite No 3, featuring Anner Bylsma.

Rob Cowan continues his look at solo Bach cello works with Anner Bylsma's account of Suite No 3.
The Mozart Symphony sequence covers no 36 in C Major, the "Linz". and the morning's theme is music and prayer. Works by Massenet and Samuel Barber contrast with pieces by James MacMillan and Alan Hovhaness.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 Feb 2014 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 2: Gigue

    Performer: Pierre Fournier.
    • J S Bach: 6 Cello Suites BWV 1007-1012.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 2: Urlicht

    Singer: Jard van Nes. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Mahler Feest.
    • Netherlands Radio.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 36 in C major K.425 'Linz'

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Fritz Reiner.
    • EMI.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    In te domine speravi, leading to Sufi songs

    Ensemble: Pera Ensemble.
    • Trialog: Music for the One God.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for diverse instruments RV558

    Ensemble: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Land of Smiles: Von Apfelbluten einen Kranz

    Singer: Fritz Wunderlich. Conductor: Carl Michalski. Orchestra: Bayerisches Sinfonie-Orchester.
    • Giuditta/Das Land des Lachelns.
    • Laser Light.
  • Jules Massenet

    La Vierge: The last sleep of the Virgin

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • Massenet: Le Cid, etc..
    • EMI Classics.
  • James MacMillan

    I am your Mother

    Singer: Missa Dunelmi.
    • Alpha e Omega.
    • Linn.
  • Samuel Barber

    Prayers of Kierkegaard, Op. 30

    Singer: Sarah Reese. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Chicago Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Andrew Schenck.
    • Samuel Barber: The Lovers.
    • Koch International Classics.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    Prayer to St Gregory

    Performer: Charles Butler. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Alan Hovhaness: And God created Whales.
    • Delos.
  • Salomone Rossi

    Psalm 128

    Ensemble: Profeti della Quinta.
    • Il Mantovano Hebreo.
    • Linn.
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

    Arpeggiata addio

    Singer: Arianna Savall. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Pedro Estevan. Performer: Thor-Harald Johnsen.
    • Music for the film Sounds and Silence.
    • ECM.
  • Anon 13th Century Spanish

    Sanctus in eternis - Sanctus et ingenitus

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Music from the Court of King Janus at Nicosia (1374-1432).
    • Sony Classical.
  • Anthony Collins

    Santa Cecilia

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Vanity Fair, etc..
    • Dutton.
  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesques Nos. 1 and 2

    Performer: Claude Helffer.
    • Albeniz: Iberia, 12 Impressions for Piano, etc..
    • Accord.
  • Kara Karayev

    The Seven Beauties - Ballet Suite: Nos. 1-3

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • The Seven Beauties.
    • Naxos.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Asturias

    Performer: Jean-Baptiste Robin. Music Arranger: Jean-Baptiste Robin.
    • The American Symphonic Organ.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 3

    Performer: Anner Bylsma.
    • J S Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo, BWV1007-1012 etc..
    • Sony Classical.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Wasps Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
  • Anon.

    Bolero 1830

    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Feb 2014 09:00