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30/12/2018

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of irresistible music for voices… featuring an extract from Bernstein’s recording of Haydn’s The Creation, a hunting song with a twist and a favourite spiritual from O Brother Where Art Thou.

Produced by Eleri Llian Rees for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Cymru Wales.

59 minutes

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Sun 30 Dec 2018 16:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Im Walde (Romances And Ballads, Op 75)

    Ensemble: Stuttgart Swr Vocal Ensemble. Director: Rupert Huber.
    • HΓ€nnsler Classic CD 93.002.
    • HΓ€nnsler Classic.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Kyrie Eleison

    Choir: GΓ€chinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Hans-Christoph Rademann.
    • Carus 83.315.
    • Carus.
    • 3.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Begone, Dull Care (Friday Afternoons, Op 7)

    Performer: Alexander Wells. Performer: Skaila Kanga. Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Naxos 8.553183.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Jazz-Man (Friday Afternoons, Op 7)

    Performer: Alexander Wells. Performer: Skaila Kanga. Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Naxos 8.553183.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation: The Heavens are Telling

    Choir: Camerata Singers. Singer: Judith Raskin. Singer: Alexander Young. Singer: John Reardon. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical SM2K 47 560.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    Dirait-on (Les Chansons de Roses)

    Performer: JΓΆrg Halubek. Performer: Morten Lauridsen. Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • Bayer Records.

  • Percy Grainger

    I'm Seventeen Come Sunday

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips 446 657-2.
    • Philips,.
    • 10.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Sicut cervus

    Ensemble: New York Polyphony.
    • BIS SACD 2203.
    • BIS.
    • 21.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Beatus vir, RV597 (Gloria Patri)

    Performer: David Briggs. Performer: Richard Farnes. Choir: King'S College Cambridge Choir. Singer: Isobel Buchanan. Singer: Jennifer Smith. Singer: Helen Watts. Singer: Ian Partridge. Singer: John Shirley‐Quirk. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • ARGO 414 495-2.
    • ARGO.
    • 19.

  • Trad.

    Down in the River to Pray

    Performer: Alison Krauss. Performer: Gillian Welch. Choir: First Baptist Choir Of White House Tennessee.
    • MERCURY RECORDS.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Messe de Requiem, Op 54: Dies Irae

    Ensemble: Hertfordshire Chorus. Choir: Harlow Chorus. Choir: East London Chorus. Conductor: Michael Kibblewhite. Singer: Tinuke Olafimihan. Singer: Catherine Wyn-Rogers. Singer: Anthony Roden. Singer: Simon Kirkbride. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Cala Records CACD1015.
    • Cala Records.
    • 12.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pot-belly (4 Russian folk songs for female chorus)

    Choir: The Bolshoi Theatre Children's Choir. Conductor: Andrei Zaboronok.
    • Collins Digital 13912.
    • Collins Digital.
    • 28.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Dance (Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS : chan-9436.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 10.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Coronation Anthem No 2, HWV 259 (Let Thy Hand be Strengthened)

    Choir: King'S College Cambridge Choir. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • EMI : 7243 5-57140 2 2.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    Abendlied

    Composer: Ralph Allwood. Choir: The Rodolfus Choir.
    • HERALD : HAVPCD-289.
    • HERALD.
    • 1.

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  • Sun 30 Dec 2018 16:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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