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Music on the Brink: St Petersburg

Suzy Klein with live music from violinist Philippe Quint, and special visits from Maxim Vengerov and Jessye Norman. Plus Jonathan Pryce with a Postcard from St Petersburg in 1914.

Suzy Klein presents, with live music from violinist Philippe Quint, plus special visits from Maxim Vengerov and Jessye Norman.

Plus, as part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink: A Postcard from St Petersburg 1914 - giving an impression of concert life in the city on the eve of the First World War. Read by Jonathan Pryce, star of stage and screen.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Jacques Offenbach

    La Belle Helene - operetta in 3 acts

    Performer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 575912-2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    21 Hungarian dances, arr. Joachim for violin and piano [orig. for piano duet]

    Performer: Itamar Golan. Performer: Maxim Vengerov.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
    • WHLIVE 0056.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Schon Rosmarin - old Viennese dance no.3 for violin and piano

    Performer: Itamar Golan. Performer: Maxim Vengerov.
    • TELDEC.
    • 9031--77351-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Kirchen-Sonate in C major K.263 for organ, 2 vn, db & 2 trp

    Performer: Maria WÅ‚oszczowska. Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Roman Perucki.
    • LIVE.
    • 08.08.2012.
  • John Dowland

    The Earl of Essex his galliard vers. for 5 viols & lute

    Performer: Stockholm Chamber Brass.
    • BIS.
    • 2017.
  • Richard Strauss

    Ariadne auf Naxos - opera in a prologue & 1 act Op.60 [usually-performed vers.]

    Performer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 422-893-2.
  • Jessye Norman, Mark Markham, Martin Williams, Mike Lovatt & STEVEN JOHNS

    IT DON'T MEAN A THING

    • Sony.
    • 88697642632.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 35 in D major K.385 (Haffner)

    Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien.
    • SONY.
    • 88883720682.
  • CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN

    Holborne The Funeralls

    Performer: The Musicians Of Shakespeare's Globe.
  • CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN

    Anonymous, The Dream

    Performer: The Musicians Of Shakespeare's Globe.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major RV.310, Op.3`3 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 456-0942.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Samson et Dalila - opera in 3 acts

    Performer: Lily Maisky. Performer: Philippe Quint.
  • Jean Rogerâ€Ducasse

    Orphee - mimodrama

    Performer: Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 8.223501.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L' Elisir d'amore - opera in 2 acts

    Performer: Lily Maisky. Performer: Philippe Quint.
  • George Gershwin

    It ain't necessarily so, transc. Heifetz for violin and piano [from "Porgy and Bess"]

    Performer: Lily Maisky. Performer: Philippe Quint.
  • Mikhail Akimovich Slonov

    A World of Farewell, Op.12 No.1

    Performer: Feodor Chaliapin.
  • Théodore Dubois

    Concerto no. 2 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien. Performer: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish S O.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA 67931.
  • Thomas Tallis

    9 Psalm tunes for 4 voices [Parker's 'The Whole Psalter translated into English Metre']

    Performer: Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • CDGIM-212.

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