麻豆约拍

with James Jolly. Today, our Wednesday award-winner is a recording of Brahms's Cello Sonata No.1 with Mstislav Rostopovich; Artist of the Week Herbert von Karajan performs Sibelius's tone-poem Tapiola which evokes the wood-spirit (Tapio) who inhabited the stark pine-forests around Sibelius's isolated home outside Jarvenpaa; and there's Mozart Clarinet Concerto, featuring Sabine Meyer.

10.00
Khachaturian
Variation of Aegina and Bacchanalia (Spartacus)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
EMI CDC 747348-2

10.04
Rachmaninov
Prelude in G sharp minor, Op. 32
Santiago Rodriguez (piano)
ELAN RECORDINGS 744198-2244-2

10.15 The Wednesday Award-Winner
Berlin, 11 November 1989: a cellist gave an impromptu performance at the Berlin Wall as demonstrators tore it down. That cellist was Mstislav Rostropovich, a Russian, and a courageous defender of human rights, who fought for art without borders, freedom of speech, and democratic values. We'll hear him in an award-winning recording made in 1984, at a time when Rostropovich was based in the United States, in self-imposed exile from the Soviet Union, because of his public opposition to the Soviet Union's restriction of cultural freedom.
Known throughout the classical music world as Slava, his playing was characterised by a rich flood of sound, his musical personality was in every sense larger than life. In today's recording, he is joined in a Brahms sonata by the pianist Rudolf Serkin. "With playing of this calibre, with both artists wonderfully attuned to each other's responses, every nuance tells and Brahms's bold melodic lines soar out from the speakers to capture the listener's imagination, and provide an enthralling musical experience." (Gramophone)

Brahms
Sonata for piano and cello in E minor, Op.38
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
DG 410 510-2

10.43
Glinka
Overture: Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar)
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
REGIS RRC 1142

10.53
Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
EMI CDC 556832-2

11.22 Artist of the Week: Herbert von Karajan
Sibelius
Tapiola, Op.112
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 457 748-2

11.53
Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)
NAXOS 8.559031.

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