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Classical Collection: Thursday - James Jolly

Thursday - James Jolly

24/06/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Thursday - James Jolly

James Jolly presents music by Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Britten, Ireland and Mozart.

With James Jolly. Berlioz: Gloria (Messe solennelle). Mendelssohn: Fingal's Cave. Mahler: Blumine. Britten: Recitative and Aria. Ireland: Comedy Overture. Mozart: Idomeneo (excpt).

This week James unearths the first thoughts of composers and performers. Today with the Kyrie and Gloria from Mozart's abandoned Mass in C minor, and Alfred Brendel's first recording of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata.


10.00 Berlioz
Gloria from Messe solennelle
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
PHILIPS 442 137-2 

10.05 Mendelssohn
Fingal's Cave (original version of the Hebrides Overture, 1830)
Leipzig Gewandhausorchester
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 478 1525 

10.16 Mahler
Blumine
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI CDC 7 54647 2 

10.25 Britten
Recitative and Aria
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557197 

10.35 Ireland
Comedy Overture (original version)
London Collegiate Brass
James Stobart
CRD 3434 

10.47 "Deh vieni non tardar", from The Marriage of Figaro, Act 4
Susanna: Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Concerto Koln
Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2961818.20 

10.50 Mozart
"Il mio tesoro intanto" from Don Giovanni, Act 1 
Don Ottavio: Christoph Pregardien (tenor) 
The English Baroque Soloists 
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) 
ARCHIV 445 870-2

10.53 Mozart
"D'Oreste, d'Aiace" from Idomeneo, Act 3
Electra: Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano)
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ARCHIV 431 674-2

10.57 Beethoven
Sonata in F minor, op.57 (Appassionata)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
VOX CDX 50422 

11.21 Mozart
Kyrie & Gloria from the Mass in C minor, K427 
English Baroque Soloists 
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) 
PHILIPS 420 210-2.

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