An Easter Celebration
A seasonal celebration featuring Bach's Easter Oratorio, Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata, Haydn's Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross and Mascagni's Easter Hymn.
A seasonal celebration featuring Bach's Easter Oratorio, Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture, Irving Berlin's Easter Parade, Haydn's Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross, Copland's setting of the Quaker Hymn - better know to us as Lord of the Dance and Mascagni's Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana.
Producer: Ian Wallington
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia (Easter Oratorio, BWV 249)
Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.- Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
- Hyperion.
- 24.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Easter Sonata (3rd mvt)
Performer: Éric Heidsieck.- CASSIOPEE.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- LAWO.
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Irving Berlin
Easter Parade
Singer: Sarah Vaughan. Singer: Billy Eckstine. Orchestra: Hal Mooney & His Orchestra.- Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine – Sing The Best Of Irving Berlin.
- Mercury.
- 2.
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Joseph Haydn
The Seven last words of our Saviour on the Cross H.20.1b (Sonata I, Largo)
Ensemble: Casals Quartet.- Haydn: Die Sieben Letzten Worte.
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- 2.
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Aaron Copland
Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Appalachian Spring)
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Warner.
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Pietro Mascagni
Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana
Singer: Helen Field. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Famous Opera Choruses.
- EMI.
- 11.
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- Mon 5 Apr 2021 19:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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