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Classical Collection: Thursday - James Jolly

Thursday - James Jolly

25/11/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Thursday - James Jolly

James Jolly presents music by Mozart, Coates, Saint-Saens, Khachaturian and Haydn.

With James Jolly. Mozart: Oboe Quartet. Coates: The Three Bears Rhapsody. Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 4. Khachaturian: Spartacus (excerpts). Haydn: Symphony No 101 in D (Clock).

This week James Jolly offers an Invitation to the Dance, Saint-Saens Piano Concertos & recordings by the conductor Pierre Monteux.

Today's highlights include Haydn's Clock Symphony from Pierre Monteux, Stephen Hough's performance of Saint-Saens' Fourth Piano Concerto and Monteverdi Madrigals on War and Love and a Wedding Cake Caprice from Saint-Saens.

10.00
Mozart
Oboe Quartet, K.370
Fumiaki Miyamoto (oboe)
Mannheim String Quartet
NOVALIS 150 732-2

10.14
Coates
The Three Bears Rhapsody
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN9869

10.25
Saint-Saens   
Piano Concerto No.4 in C minor, Op.44
Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
HYPERION 673312

10.49
Saint-Saens 
Wedding Cake Caprice
Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
HYPERION 673312

10.56
Today's Group of 3 come from Monteverdi's Madrigals of War and Love:'Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi' 
Vago augelletto che cantando vai
Dolcissimo Uscignolo
Ardo, ardo, avvampo, mi struggo
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
OPUS 111 OPS30-187

11.09
Khachaturian
Spartacus - excerpts from the ballet suites 
Suite II No.1  Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia 
Suite III No.2 Dance of the Greek Slave 
Suite III No.3 Dance of an Egyptian Girl 
Suite I No.3 Variation of Aegina and Bacchanalia 
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra 
Alexander Lazarev (conductor) 
WARNER APEX 8573 89237-2

11.28
Haydn
Symphony No.101 in D, 'The Clock'
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)
DECCA 475 7798.

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