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Innermost Thoughts and Meditations

Duration:: 2 hours, 57 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 17 February 2013

This Sunday Rob Cowan looks at composers who open a musical window into their innermost intimate thoughts and meditations, with works by Bernstein, Janacek, Dvorak and Fibich. As it is Lent, there is no sacred cantata for the week, so Rob introduces the best known of J S Bach's secular works in similar style, the "Coffee Cantata". This week's single movement symphony is Shostakovich No. 2.

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart March K 445
Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Ensemble, Alexander Janiczek
Linn, CKD 376, Track 1
Fryderyk Chopin Nocturne in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 in B major
Performer: Nadia Reisenberg (piano)
Bridge, 9276A/D, CD B, track 3
Otto Klemperer Merry Waltz
Performer: Philharmonia, Otto Klemperer
EMI, 5 67337 2, Track 1
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata BWV 211: Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Coffee Cantata)
Performer: Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julia Varady, Aldo Baldin, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
Philips, 412 8982-2, Tracks 1 - 10
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev Suite for Orchestra: Quasi Valse
Performer: USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Melodiya, MEL CD 10 01877, CD 2, track 5
- Franz Peter Schubert -Luciano Berio. Rendering – I
Performer: Houston Symphony / Christoph Eschenbach
Koch, 3-7382-2 H1, Track 1
Zdenek Fibich Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences – Nos. 1-4
Performer: Marián Lapsansky (piano)
Supraphon, SU 0188-2 131, Track 1-4
Leonard Bernstein Mass – Meditation No. 1
Performer: Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein
Sony, 88697880862, CD 6, track 12
Leos Janacek String Quartet No. 2, ‘Intimate Letters’
Performer: Smetana Quartet
Testament, SBT 1075, Track 9-12
Antonin Dvorak Songs my mother taught me, Op. 55 No. 4
Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
EMI, 5 65860 2, CD 3, track 9
Tchaikovsky None but the lonely heart, Op. 6. No. 6
Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
EMI, 5 65860 2, CD 3, track 10
Joseph Haydn Zingarese Nos. 1, 6 and 8
Performer: Willi Boskovsky Ensemble
Vanguard, VCD-72018, Track 11
Arcangelo Corelli Sonata Op. 5 No. 6
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Riccardo Castagnone (harpsichord)
Philips, PHCP-4949, Track 22-26
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki Totus Tuus
Performers: Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks (director)
Signum, SIGCD 180, Track 6
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 2
Performer: Academic Republic Chorus, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Olympia, OCD200, Track 5
Francis Poulenc Violon
Performers: Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen
, Omnium Audiovisual, GW 13001, CD 3 Track 18
Joseph Kosma Les feuilles mortes
Performers: Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen
, Omnium Audiovisual, GW 13001, CD 3 Track 19
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No. 22: Sanctify us by thy goodness
Performer: Hubert Harry (piano)
, Royss Music, CDH 190.03, Track 7