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Music on the Brink: St Petersburg

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show. For Radio 3's Music on the Brink Season, 鶹 foreign correspondents talk to Petroc about cultural life in Europe in early 1914.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. As part of 鶹 Radio 3's Music on the Brink season, 鶹 Correspondents from across Europe shine a light on music making across the continent as it was in the period just before the outbreak of the First World War.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 9 Jan 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Prelude, Op 12 No 7 (Ten Pieces)

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov.
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Julia; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit U.A..
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • William Byrd

    Vigilate for 5 voices

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Graham Ross.
    • Veni Emmanuel - Music for Advent.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn - String Quartets Op.74.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite in E minor BWV.996 for lute: Bourree and Gigue

    Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • J.S. Bach: Werke Fur Laute Vol.1.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6-7.
  • Richard Strauss

    Wiegenlied, Op 41 No 1

    Singer: Anne Schwanewilms. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • R. Strauss: Don Juan; Lieder; Macbeth.
    • Halle.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Capriccio, Op.116 No.7

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN 10713.
    • 8.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Mazurek in E minor, Op 49, arr. for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Romance; Mazurek; Humoresque.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Granville Bantock

    Sappho for mezzo soprano and orchestra: Bridal Song

    Singer: Susan Bickley. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bantock: Sappho; Sapphic Poem.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No 10 in G major, Op 96 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Alina Ibragimova/Cedric Tiberghien: Beethoven Violin Sonatas - 2.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 11.
  • Leoš Janáček

    Quartet no. 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata) for strings: 1st movement; Adagio..

    Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet.
    • Janacek: The Two String Quartets.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Lilacs Op.21`5

    Performer: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff - Solo Works and Transcriptions.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 13.
  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Choir: The Sixteen. Performer: Robert Quinney. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven, The Sixteen.
    • UCJ.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Carnaval romain - overture (Op.9)

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • Berlioz: Overtures: Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal/Dutoit.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Tallis

    In ieunio et fletu

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMU 807572.
    • 12.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Polonaise for violin and orchestra no. 1 (Op.4) in D major

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Paganini/Saraste/Kreisler/Wieniawski: Vengerov/Golan.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk (Main title; Reunion; Finale)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • Korngold: The Sea Hawk: National Philharmonic Orchestra/Gerhardt.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 1.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 107 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Johannes Moser. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pietari Inkinen.
    • Shostakovich Cello Concerto; Britten Cello Symphony.
    • Hanssler Classic.
    • 1.
  • Juan García de Salazar

    Dixit Dominus from Vespers of Our Lady

    Ensemble: Capilla Peñaflorida. Ensemble: Ministriles de Marsias. Conductor: Josep Cabré.
    • Salazar: Complete Vespers of Our Lady.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major, K.417 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    When yesterday we met, Op 26 No 13

    Performer: Unknown Pianist. Singer: Feodor Chaliapin.
    • The Chaliapin Edition, Volume 4: 1913-1921.
    • Arbiter.
    • 9.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Sinfonia for strings in G minor

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Venice by Night.
    • Avie.
    • 5-7.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude No.20 in C minor

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.
    • 00289 479 1728.
    • 25.
  • Edward Elgar

    Softly and gently (The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Choir: Hallé Choir. Choir: Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 Jan 2014 06:30