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Mozart's Gran Partita with Sarah Devonald and Andrew McGregor

The best new classical releases; Building a Library: Sarah Devonald compares recordings of Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B flat, the 'Gran Partita' - and picks a favourite.

09.30
Building a Library
Another chance to hear Sarah Devonald compare recordings of Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B flat, the 'Gran Partita', K.361/370a - and pick a favourite.

'Gran Partita' as a subtitle implies that Mozart's Serenade No. 10 is a large ambitious work, and although the work is clearly conceived as a whole 'cycle', it was not ascribed to the score by the composer himself. Mozart's vast seven-movement work for 13 wind instruments has an elusive compositional history and was thought for a long time to have been composed in 1780 or 1781 for a performance in Munich. No mention of the Serenade appears in any of Mozart's letters from that time and, in the 1970s, when the new critical edition of Mozart's works was published, after exhaustive studies of the autograph, it is now believed that the work was first performed in 1784 at a benefit concert for the Vienna-based basset-horn player Anton Stadler. The Serenade also bears the hallmarks of Mozart's later writing and certainly postdates the two wind serenades in E flat and C minor that were definitely composed in 1782.

The mysterious circumstances of both the subtitle 'Gran Partita' and the many versions of the score give the performer some interesting challenges, which Sarah Devonald discusses with Andrew McGregor.

10.45
As part of Radio 3's History of Black Classical Music Andrew McGregor talks to Natasha Loges about some of her favourite black singers

11.15
Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Recording of the Week.

2 hours, 46 minutes

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Sat 16 May 2020 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Gypsy Fantasy Op. 127 (mvts1-3)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk.
    • BIS.
    • BIS-2301.
    • 11-13.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Care selve (Atalanta)

    Singer: Samuel Mariño. Orchestra: Händelfestspielorchester Halle. Conductor: Martin Hofstetter.
    • Care pupille.
    • Orfeo.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: recreation – Grosses Orchester Graz. Conductor: Michael Hofstetter.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1-2 & Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Hob. I:13 (Live).
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV860

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Stanislaw Moniuszko

    Dumka and Duet (Flis, Act 1 Scene 2)

    Singer: Ewa Tracz. Singer: Wojtek Gierlach. Orchestra: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli

    Sonata Op.3 No.2 "La Cesta"

    Performer: Elicia Silverstein. Performer: Mauro Valli.
    • The Dreams & Fables I Fashion.
    • Rubicon.
    • 4.

  • Edmund Finnis

    The Air, Turning

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dignare, Domine (Dettingen Te Deum, HVW 283)

    Singer: Marian Anderson.
    • Memoir Records.

  • Traditional Spiritual

    If he change my name

    Performer: Franz Rupp. Singer: Marian Anderson.
    • RCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio! K418

    Singer: Kathleen Battle. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Warner Classics.

  • André Previn

    Whose House Is This? (Honey and Rue)

    Singer: Kathleen Battle. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Lied der Baumwollpacker (Symphonische Gesänge, Op. 20)

    Singer: Willard White. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Aaron Copland

    The Little Horses (Old American Songs, Set 2)

    Performer: Graeme McNaught. Singer: Willard White.
    • Chandos.

  • Robert Schumann

    Heiß mich nicht reden, Op.98 No.5

    Performer: David Garvey. Singer: Leontyne Price.
    • RCA.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Tu vois le feu du soir (Miroirs brûlants, FP 98)

    Performer: David Garvey. Singer: Leontyne Price.
    • RCA.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Vieni fra queste braccia (La gazza ladra)

    Singer: Lawrence Brownlee. Orchestra: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • Virtuoso Rossini Arias.
    • Delos.
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    Benedetto sia 'l giorno (Sonetto 104 del Petrarca 'Pace non trovo', S270)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Lawrence Brownlee.
    • Opus Arte.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor 'Fifths'

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

Record Review

9.00am

Ìý

Prokofiev: Suites from The Gambler & The Tale of the Stone Flower

Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor)

BIS BIS2301 (Hybrid SACD)

Ìý

Care Pupille: Handel, Gluck

Samuel Mariño (soprano)

Händelfestspielorchester Halle

Michael Hofstetter (conductor)

Orfeo C998201

Ìý

Haydn: Cello Concertos

Natalie Clein (cello)

Recreation-Grosses Orchester Graz

Michael Hofstetter (conductor)

Oehms OC1895

Ìý

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1

Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)

Deutsche Grammophon 4838436 (2 CDs)

Ìý

Stanislaw Moniuszko: Flis - the Raftsman

Ewa Tracz (soprano, Zosia)

Matheus Pompeu (tenor, Franek)

Mariusz Godlewski (baritone, Jakub)

Aleksander Teliga (bass, Antoni)

Wojtek Gierlach (bass, Szóstak)

Paweł Cichoński (tenor, Feliks)

Chór Opery i Filharmonii Podlaskiej

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi (conductor)

Frederick Chopin Institute NIFCCD086

Ìý

9.30am – Building a Library – Sarah Devonald on Mozart ‘Gran Partita’: Serenade in B flat K361 (NOTE: this is a repeat; it was first broadcast on 12th October 2019)

Ìý

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Reviewer: Sarah Devonald

Ìý

Recommended Recording:

Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble

Warner Classics 3434242

Ìý

Other Recommended Recordings:

Ìý

Ensemble a vent Maurice Bourgue

Pierre Verany PV793031

Ìý

10.15am – New Releases

Ìý

Korngold: Symphony in F sharp, Theme and Variations & Straussiana

Sinfonia of London

John Wilson (conductor)

Chandos CHSA5220 (Hybrid SACD)

Ìý

The Dreams & Fables I Fashion: music by Biber, Sciarrino, Mealli, Berio and J.S. Bach

Elicia Silverstein (violin)

Mauro Valli (baroque cello)

Michele Pasotti (theorbo)

Rubicon RCD1031

Ìý

Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning

Eloisa-Fleur Thorn (violin)

Benjamin Beilman (violin)

Mark Simpson (clarinet)

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

London Contemporary Orchestra

Britten Sinfonia

Robert Ames (conductor)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Richard Baker (conductor)

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

NMC NMCD249

Ìý

10.45am – Radio 3’s a History of Black Classical series - Natasha Loges on great black singers

Ìý

Marian Anderson Sings the Music of Handel, Giordani, Martini, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Sibelius and Verdi

Marian Anderson (contralto)

Kosti Vehanen (piano)

Memoir Records

Ìý

Spirituals

Marian Anderson (contralto)

Franz Rupp (piano)

Kosti Vehanen (piano)

RCA G010001716672I (download only)

Ìý

Kathleen Battle sings Mozart

Kathleen Battle (soprano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

André Previn (conductor)

Warner Classics 7777473555 (download only)

Ìý

Previn: Honey and Rue, Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 and music from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess

Kathleen Battle (soprano)

Orchestra Of St. Luke's

André Previn (conductor)

Deutsche Grammophon 4377872

Ìý

Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie & Sinfonische Gesänge

Alessandra Marc (soprano)

Håkan Hagegård (baritone)

Willard White (bass)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Decca 4435692

Ìý

Willard White sings Copland

Willard White (bass)

Graeme McNaught (piano)

Chandos CHAN8960

Ìý

Leontyne Price sings Schumann

Leontyne Price (soprano)

David Garvey (piano)

RCA G010002761903A (download only)

Ìý

Price rediscovered: music by Handel, Poulenc, Brahms, Barber etc.

Leontyne Price (soprano)

David Garvey (piano)

RCA 09026639082 (download only)

Ìý

Virtuoso Rossini Arias: Lawrence Brownlee

Lawrence Brownlee (tenor)

Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

Constantine Orbelian (conductor)

Delos DE3455

Ìý

Lawrence Brownlee: The Heart That Flutters (Rosenblatt Recitals)

Music by Duparc, Liszt, Donizetti, Rossini etc.

Lawrence Brownlee (tenor)

Iain Burnside (piano)

Opus Arte OACD9015

Ìý

11.15am – Record of the Week

Ìý

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76

Chiaroscuro Quartet

BIS BIS2348 (download only; hybrid SACD released on 29th May)

Broadcast

  • Sat 16 May 2020 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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