Strauss's Don Quixote in Building a Library with Nigel Simeone & Sarah Walker
Nigel Simeone selects his favourite version of Strauss's Don Quixote; plus Gillian Moore with her choice of recent releases
Sarah Walker with the best new recordings of classical music.
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Gillian Moore with her choice of exciting recent releases
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Building a Library
Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite version of Strauss's Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a tone poem for cello, viola, and orchestra, subtitled Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character. It is based on the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Strauss wrote it in 1897. The solo cello portrays Don Quixote, and the solo viola, tenor tuba, and bass clarinet represent his squire Sancho Panza. It is full of Strauss's wildly imaginative orchestration used to describe elements in the story such as an approaching army, and, at one point, the bleating of sheep.
Recommended version
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Janigro (cello)
Milton Preves (viola)
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA Living Stereo 09026 68170-2
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Giacomo Puccini
Nessun Dorma (Turandot)
Singer: Pene Pati. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.- Pene Pati - Nessun Dorma.
- Warner Classics.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.47 in G major H.1.47 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen.- Berlin Classics.
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Richard Wagner
Ring Odyssey (G枚tterd盲mmerung extract)
Music Arranger: Joseph Swensen. Singer: Derek Welton. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.- Ring Odyssey.
- Alpha.
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Amy Beach
Variations on Balkan Themes Op.60 (extract)
Performer: Claire Huangci.- Made in Usa: Gershwin, Beach & Barber.
- ALPHA.
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Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt)
Performer: Niek Baar. Orchestra: German Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph Poppen.- Schumann & Bruch Violin Concertos.
- Channel Classics.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Kalendar Prince (Sheherazade Op.35)
Music Arranger: Vincent Paulet. Orchestra: Ensemble K. Conductor: Simone Menezes.- Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, A Tale.
- ALPHA.
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Richard Rodgers
Carousel Waltz (Carousel)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- Rodgers & Hammerstein鈥檚 Carousel.
- Chandos Records.
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
String Quartet no.5 in E flat major (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Bennewitz String Quartet.- An Evening in Vienna 1784.
- SUPRAPHON.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no.4 in E flat major 'Romantic' (2nd mvt - extract))
Orchestra: Anima Eterna Brugge. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.- Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 "Romantic".
- harmonia mundi.
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William Byrd
Te Deum (The Great Service)
Choir: Alamire.- WILLIAM BYRD: The Great Service & English Anthems.
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