25 March 2008
Tuesday 25 March 2008 17:00-19:00 (Radio 3)
Sean Rafferty is joined by Andrew Motion to introduce a poem as part of Radio 3's Rites of Spring season, and violinist Leila Josefowicz chats to Sean about playing Berg with Oliver Knussen and the Âé¶¹Éç Symphony Orchestra at the weekend.
Playlist
17.02
Rameau
Nais - Overture
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)
L'OISEAU-LYRE 455293-2
Track 5
3'47
17.07
Debussy
Reflets dans l'eau (Images Book 1)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
WARNER 8573-83940-2
Track 1
4'41
17.12
Walton
Popular Song (Facade)
Constant Lambert (reciter)
Ensemble conducted by William Walton
DUTTON CDBP9761
Track 22
1'47
17.22
Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony (3rd movement)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Roger Norrington (conductor)
DECCA 467 047-2
Track 3
7'41
17.31
Handel
Qual leon che fere irato (Arianna in Creta)
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Laurence Cummings (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL 82876 88952-2
Track 11
5'22
17.37
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (Op.18) (Adagio sostenuto)
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
DG 459 643-2
Track 5
12'10
17.50
Mozart
Fuor del mar (Idomeneo)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Scottish Chamber Orhestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 5572602
CD 1 Track 26
6'12
17.56
Ponce (arr. Heifetz)
Estrellita
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
John Novacek (piano)
PHILIPS 462 948-2
Track 8
3'23
18.03
Prokofiev
March in B flat major (Op.99)
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennell (conductor)
MERCURY 434 334-2
Track 5
2'08
18.06
Novacek
Intoxication Rag from Four Rags
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
John Novacek (piano)
PHILIPS 462 948-2
Track 1
1'55
18.14
Knussen
Violin Concerto (1st movement 'Recitative')
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
Âé¶¹Éç Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
DG 477 7352
CD 2 Track 2
5'01
18.25
Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor (Op.47) (3rd movement)
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
PHILIPS 446 131-2
Track 6
7'10
18.32
Bellini
Compagne, teneri amici. Come per me sereno (La Sonnambula, Act 1)
Maria Callas (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Tullio Serafin (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 747966-2
Track 12
5'41
18.38
Bartok
Allegro barbaro (Sz.49)
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
PHILIPS 475 6720
CD 2 Track 4
2'27
18.41
Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
ARCHIV PRODUKTION 453 451-2
Tracks 1-5
17'50