BBC Radio 3

More episodes

Rob Cowan

Duration:: 2 hours, 57 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 29 April 2012

Rob Cowan presents music with a theme of travel, including Nielsen's Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands, and Grieg's Overture "In Autumn". He also introduces Mozarts Violin Sonata K 301 and this week's Bach Cantata, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12, in a 1972 performance by the late Gustav Leonhardt who died in January.

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte: “Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja”
Performers: Hermann Prey (baritone), Staatskapelle Dresden, Otmar Suiter (conductor)
Berlin Classics, 0300338BBC, CD1, tr1
Tchaikovsky The Voyevoda: Overture
Performers: USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kozhukhar (conductor)
Melodiya, MEL CD 10 01869, CD1, tr1
Johann Sebastian Bach Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Performers: Gustav Leonhardt, Tölzer Knabenchor & King's College Choir, Leonhardt Consort, Paul Esswood, Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond,
Teldec, 2564664202, CD1, tr9-15
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin Poeme in F sharp Op. 32, No. 1
Performers: Vladimir Sofronitzky (piano)
Philips, 456 970-2, CD2, tr13
Franz Schmidt Notre Dame: Intermezzo
Performers: Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam, Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)
Pentatone, PTC 5186 461, CD2, tr6
Antonin Dvorak Slavonic Dance in F, Op. 46 No. 4
Performers: Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Tabachnik (conductor)
Brussels Philharmonic Recordings, BPR0002, 8
Josef Lanner Pesth Waltzes
Performers: Concerto Köln, Sarband
Deutsche Grammophon, 00289 477 5420, 13
Franz Liszt La lugubre gondola
Performers: Thomas Demenga (cello), Thomas Larcher (piano)
ECM, 476 3022, 15
Edvard Grieg Overture: In Autumn
Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Sir Thomas Beecham
EMI, 5099967876327, 12
Henri Duparc L’Invitation au voyage
Performers: Maggie Teyte (soprano), Orch, Leslie Heward (conductor)
EMI, 724356519824, 9
Carlos Chávez Sinfonia India
Performers: Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Eduardo Mata (conductor)
Dorian, DSL-90914, 11
Carl Nielsen An imaginary journey to the Faroe Islands
Performers: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
EMI, 724356975828, CD2, Tr 5
Antonio Caldara Te decus virgineum
Performers: Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 88691926042, CD2, Tr1
Felix Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Performers: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, Hans Zender (conductor)
Glor, GCO9281, 5
Giovanni Bottesini Passione Amorose
Performers: Thomas Martin, Franco Petracchi, LSO directed by Matthew Gibson
Naxos, 8.570398, 6-8
Germaine Tailleferre Ouverture
Performers: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, directed by Georges Tzipine
EMI, 5 85204 2, CD1, tr5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Sonata in G, K301
Performers: Hilary Hahn (violin), Natalie Zhu (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon, 477 5572, 4-5
Emmanuel Chabrier Le Roi Malgré Lui: Morceau d’ensemble (Act 2)
Performers: Barbara Hendricks, Peter Jeffes, Chris de Moor, Jean Philippe-Lafonte, Isabelle Garcisanz, Gino Quillico, French Radio Chorus and Nouvel Philharmonic Orchestra of French Radio, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
Warner Classics, 2564 66213-2, CD2, tr3