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James Jolly selects music for Easter Sunday and also begins a new season of Beethoven violin sonatas with No 5 in F (Spring), in a recording by Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich.

James Jolly selects music for Easter Sunday morning, and also begins a new season of music on the programme with Beethoven's Violin Sonata no 5 in F, the "Spring", in a recording by Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich.

In the weeks to come, James and Rob Cowan will present a different Beethoven violin sonata each Sunday, picking exemplary recordings that show a variety of approaches to this great repertoire.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 20 Apr 2014 09:00

Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Easter Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Songs from Des knaben Wunderhorn - Lob des hohen Verstandes

    Performer: John Shirley鈥怮uirk. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata for piano and violin, No 5 in F Op 24 - Spring聮

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
    • 4-7.
  • Frederick Delius

    Cynara

    Performer: John Shirley鈥怮uirk. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Himmel lacht, die Erde jubiliert, BWV31

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 9-17.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Mystery Sonatas - The Resurrection

    Performer: John Holloway. Ensemble: Tragicomedia.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Maxime Merlandi

    Maria

    Performer: Barbara Furtuna. Orchestra: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Seven Last Words Of Christ No 6. Pater in manus tuas聟聮

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Giovanni Legrenzi

    La divisone del mondo - Lumi, potete piangere

    Performer: N煤ria Rial. Performer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • William Cornysh

    Woefully arrayed

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell.
    • 8.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana - Regina laetare...Innegiamo, il Signor聮

    Orchestra: Agnes Baltsa Philharmonia Orchestra. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • DG.
  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Katyn Epitaph

    Orchestra: Polish RSO. Performer: Sylwia Mierzejewska. Conductor: 艁ukasz Borowicz.
    • CPO.
    • 4.
  • James McCarthy

    17 Days - A Quoi Bon Dire

    Choir: Hertfordshire Chorus. Conductor: David Temple.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 10 in G, Op 14 No 2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8-10.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Mystical Songs

    Performer: John Shirley鈥怮uirk. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • EMI.
    • 2-6.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Apr 2014 09:00