Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in Building a Library with Gillian Moore and Andrew McGregor
Gillian Moore chooses her favourite version of Wagner's orchestral piece Siegfried Idyll, and Joseph McHardy selects a crop of new releases of early music.
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
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Building a Library
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll with Gillian Moore
"Music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R put into my hands the score of his 鈥淪ymphonic Birthday Greeting." So wrote Richard Wagner's wife Cosima after the first performance of the composer's Siegfried Idyll - written as a surprise birthday present for Cosima which she first heard as she awoke on Christmas morning 1870 while the specially assembled chamber orchestra was playing it on the stairs of the couple's villa. The intensely romantic work is full of personal significance for the Wagners, and much of the music was later incorporated into the third instalment of Wagner's operatic Ring cycle, Siegfried.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor BWV.232 (Osanna in Excelsis)
Choir: La Cetra Vokalensemble. Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.- J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor.
- Arcana.
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Kalevi Aho
String Quartet no.3 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Stenhammar Quartet.- BIS.
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Richard Wagner
O du mein holder Abendstern (Tannh盲user)
Singer: Florian Sempey. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Victor Jacob.- Alpha.
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James Oswald
Airs for the Spring - The Tulip (Allegro [Moderato])
Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.- BIS.
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James Oswald
Airs for the Spring - The Tulip (2nd Allegro [Moderato)]
Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.- BIS.
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James Oswald
Airs for the Spring - The Tulip (Hornpipe [Vivace])
Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.- BIS.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio Sonata in G minor TWV.42:g9 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.- BIS.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio Sonata in G minor TWV.42:g9 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.- BIS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland BWV.659
Performer: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
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Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier
Les Arts florissants H.487 (Scene 5; Chaconne, Air et Choeur)
Singer: Haley Sicking. Singer: David Grogan. Singer: Andrew Dittman. Performer: James Richman. Orchestra: Dallas Bach Society.- Rubicon.
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
Orchestral Suite in D Major (Overture)
Orchestra: Tempesta di Mare. Director: Gwyn Roberts. Director: Richard Stone.- Chandos.
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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
6 Polonaises m茅lancoliques Op.17 (no.4 in G minor)
Performer: Robert Markham.- F. X. Mozart: Polonaises.
- Grand Piano.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ein ergrimmter Lowe brullet (Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots K.35)
Singer: Ad猫le Charvet. Ensemble: The Caravaggio Ensemble. Conductor: Camille Delaforge.- Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K. 35.
- Ch芒teau de Versailles Spectacles.
- 5.
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George Frideric Handel
Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori (Sorge il di [Aci, Galatea e Polifemo])
Singer: Nahuel di Pierro. Orchestra: Ensemble Diderot. Conductor: Johannes Pramsohler.- Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori.
- Audax Records.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet no.4 in D major Op.83 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Casals Quartet.- Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-5.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Michael Praetorius
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.- 2L.
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