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Rob Cowan

Duration:: 2 hours

First broadcast:: Sunday 15 April 2012

Rob Cowan remembers the late Maurice Andre, with Albinoni's trumpet concerto in B flat, and commemorates the centenary of Bram Stoker's death with supernatural-inspired pieces including Liszt's Mephisto Waltz no 1 and Dvorak's Water Goblin. He also presents Gorecki's Three Pieces in Old Style for strings, and this week's Bach Cantata, BVW 67 Halt Im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, in a historical version featuring Kathleen Ferrrier.

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

[anonymous] Saltarello
Performers: Early Music Quartet, Thomas Binkley
Teldec, 4509-95073-2, track 10
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni Trumpet Concerto in B Flat
Performers: Maurice Andre; Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra/Jean Francois Paillard directing
Erato, 2564 69572-2, CD2, tracks 7-9
Heinrich August Marschner Overture – The Vampire
Performers: Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI/Günther Neuhold
Warner Fonit, 8573 84436-2, CD1, track 1
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata BVW 67: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ.
Performers: Reginald Jacques: The Jaques Orchestra; Kathleen Ferrier, William Herbert, William Parsons
Decca, 0289 478 3589 9, CD14, tracks 12-18
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki Three pieces in Old Style for String Orchestra
Performers: RPO, Yuri Simanov
Royal Philharmonic Masterworks, 28260, tracks 4-6
Pietro Mascagni Serenata
Performers: Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna
Decca, 4766419, track 1
Philip Glass The End of Dracula
Performers: Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch, 75942, track 26
Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1
Arranger: Performers: Orchestre de Paris/Georg Solti
Decca, 001158502, CD4, track 4
HK Gruber Frankenstein!! Finale, The Green Haired Man, Batman and Robin, Monsters in the Park, Litany, Hello Hello Herr Frankenstein, Grete Muller’s Adieu, Fanfare - Epilogue
Performers: BBC Philharmonic/Gruber
Chandos, CHAN 10404, track 12-19
Edward MacDowell Hexentanz Op. 17, No.2
Performers: Stephen Hough
Nimbus, NI2540, track 7
Antonin Dvorak Tone Poem: The Water Goblin (Vodnik)
Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zdenek Chalabala
Supraphon, SU 3056-2 011, track 1
Carl Orff Lügenmärchen
Performers: Tölzer Boys Choir, Chamber Choir of National College of Music, Stuttgart: Chorus and Instrumental Ensemble
RCA, 75605513572, CD1, track 5
Alban Berg Piano Sonata
Performers: Denes Varjon
ECM New Series, 2247, track 1
Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto in C Major
Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich, English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
Decca, 430 633-2, tracks 1-3
John W. Duarte Trio For Three i) March ii) Spinning Song iii) Alla Turca
Performers: Zagreb Guitar Trio
Hrvatsko Drustvo Skladatelja (HDS), CD2009, tracks 1-3
Henryk Wieniawski Polonaise in A
Performers: Oscar Shumsky (violin), with piano acc.
Biddulph, LAB 137, track 3
Sven-Eric Johanson Under the Greenwood Tree
Performers: Norwegian Soloists’ Choir/Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen
Simax, PSC 1298, track 4
Sven-Eric Johanson Lovers Love the Spring
Performers: Norwegian Soloists’ Choir/Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen
Simax, PSC 1298, track 8