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Saturday - Fiona Talkington

Fiona Talkington presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 5 Dec 2009 07:00

Music Played

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    The Ruler of the Spirits – concert overture

    Performer: Russian National Orchestra Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 453 486-2.
  • Juan de Araujo

    ¡A, de la región de luces! (O denizens of the region of light!)

    Performer: Ex Cathedra Consort & Baroque Ensemble Performer: Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67600.
  • James Rhodes

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner no.4)

    Arranger : Hekkema Performer: Calefax Reed Quintet

    • MDG 619 0658-2.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday from Rodeo

    Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Performer: Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • DECCA 430 705-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue in A major, BWV.536

    Performer: Christopher Herrick (organ – Jesuit Church, Lucerne)

    • HYPERION CDD22062.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hostias from Requiem in D minor, K.626

    Completed by Süssmayr Performer: Arnold Schoenberg Choir Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 58795 2.
  • Frédéric Chopin - Prelude for piano in D flat major, Op.28 No.15 'Raindrop'

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1

    Performer: Jürgen Schuster (trumpet) Performer: Cologne Chamber Orchestra Performer: Helmut Müller-Brühl (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.570482.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Waltzes, Op.54: No.1 in A major

    Arranger: Burghauser Performer: Prague Symphony Orchestra Performer: Jiří Bělohlávek

    • SUPRAPHON SU 11 06642.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? (Who made up this little song?) from Des Knaben

    Performer: Wunderhorn Performer: Stephan Genz (baritone) Performer: Roger Vignoles (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67645.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto no.2 in B flat major from Concerti Grossi after Corelli, Op.5

    Performer: The Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Andrew Manze (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907261.62.
  • Charles Gounod

    Valentin's Aria: Avant de quitter ces lieux (from Faust)

    Performer: Sir Thomas Allen (baritone: Valentin) Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: David Parry (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 3118.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Albumblatt (Albumleaf)

    Performer: Silke Avenhaus (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.557331.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    March from the Nutcracker Suite

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 449 726-2.
  • Boris Aleksandrovich Tchaikovsky

    Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) from the Nutcracker Suite

    Arrangers: Ellington/Strayhorn Performer: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

    • COLUMBIA COL 472356 2.
  • Milano/Robinson/Ortiz

    Canon; La Spagna/Passamezzo Gaillard/Recercada segunda

    Performer: Ensemble directed by Rolf Lislevand (lute)

    • ECM NEW SERIES 2088.
  • Herbert Howells

    A Spotless Rose (3 carol-anthems no.2)

    Performer: Polyphony Performer: Stephen Layton (director)

    • HELIOS CDH 55216.
  • Richard Wagner - Overture: Rienzi

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

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