Nichola McAuliffe
Actress Nichola McAuliffe chooses some forgotten gems - music by once renowned composers and performers whose names are now less well known.
Actress Nichola McAuliffe chooses a personal selection of musical "forgotten gems": composers and performers whose fame was enormous in their lifetimes but whose names may have slipped from our 21st-century memories. The programme includes music by Meyerbeer, Graupner, Dittersdorf, Myaskovsky, Rutland Boughton, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Pauline Viardot and performances by pianist Alfred Cortot, sopranos Dora Labette, Dame Isobel Baillie and Mary Thomas and tenor William Heddle Nash.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le Prophete - grand opera - Prelude
Conductor: Henry LEWIS Performer: Ambrosian Opera Chorus Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- CBS M3K-79400.
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Pauline Viardot
La Calandrina for voice and piano
Performer: Christoph KELLER - Piano Performer: Karin OTT - Soprano
- CPO 999 044-2.
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Johann Christoph Graupner
Concerto in G major for bassoon
Conductor: Pal NEMETH Performer: Paolo TOGNON - Bassoon Performer: Capella Savaria
- DYNAMIC CDS199.
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Franz Schubert
Litanei, transc. Godowsky for piano [orig. for voice and piano]
Performer: Alfred CORTOT - Piano
- PEARL GEMM CD-9386.
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Nicolay Yakovlevich MYASKOVSKY
Symphony no. 16 in F major Op.39 - 1st movement; Allegro vivace
Conductor: Yevgeny SVETLANOV Performer: Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra
- ALTO ALC1022.
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Arthur Sullivan
Orpheus with his lute for voice and piano [text from 'Henry VIII']
Performer: Dora LABBETTE - Soprano Performer: Unknown Orchestra
- SYMPOSIUM 1123.
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Quartet no. 5 in E flat major Krebs.195 for strings
Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus String Quartet
- BERLIN CLASSICS 0092612BC.
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Rutland Boughton
The Immortal Hour - opera - Act 1
Conductor: Alan G MELVILLE Performer: English Chamber Orchestra
- HYPERION CDA-66101/2.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The House of Life for voice and piano - Silent noon
Performer: Ernest LUSH - Piano Performer: William Heddle Nash - Tenor
- DUTTON CDLX-7237.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire Op.21 for voice and ensemble - Part 2: Nacht; Gebet an Pierrot; Raub; Rote
Conductor: David ATHERTON Performer: Mary THOMAS - Soprano Performer: London Sinfonietta
- DECCA 425-626 2.
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Muzio Clementi
Symphony in B flat major Op.18`1
Conductor: Matthias BAMERT Performer: London Mozart Players
- CHANDOS CHAN 9234.
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George Frideric Handel
Joshua - oratorio in 3 acts - Act 3; O, Had I Jubal's lyre [aria, Achsah]
Conductor: Charles PRENTICE Performer: Isobel BAILLIE - Soprano Performer: Unknown Orchestra
- PEARL GEMM-CD 9934.
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Le CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES
Concerto Op.posth.'2 for violin and orchestra - Rondo allegro)
Conductor: Kevin MALLON Performer: Qian Zhen - Violin Performer: Toronto Chamber Orchestra
- NAXOS 8.557322.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Prelude to 'Le Prophete'
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Pauline Viardot
La Calandrina
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Johann Christoph Graupner
Concerto in G major for bassoon
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Franz Schubert
Litanei (transcribed by Godowsky for piano)
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
First movement from Symphony No.16 in F major
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Arthur Sullivan
Orpheus with his lute
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
String Quartet No.5 in E flat major
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Rutland Boughton
Act 1 of 'The Immortal Hour'
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The House of Life - Silent noon
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Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire - Part 2
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Muzio Clementi
Symphony in B flat major Op.18 No.1
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George Frideric Handel
Aria 'O, Had I Jubal's lyre' from Act 3 of 'Joshua'
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne
Violin Concerto Op. post. '2
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- Sat 8 Sep 2012 15:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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