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Baroque Spring: Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Thursday 07 March 2013

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season. We commence the Breakfast Forty-Eight - a daily morning dose of the 48 Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. As part of Breakfast's Musical Map of Britain, running throughout 2013, Breakfast will be asking listeners to highlight Baroque connections to their area of the UK.
BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring is a month long season of music, drama and comedy dedicated to shedding new light on the Baroque era.

Music Played

24 items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
  • 00:01
    Image for Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach Air from Cantata No 36 BWV 36 (transcribed Saint Saens)

    Performer: Nadejda Vlaeva [piano]

    Hyperion CDA67873, Tr.15

  • 00:05
    Image for Franz von Suppé

    Franz von Suppé Juanita Marsch

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Neeme Järvi

    Chandos CHSA 5110, Tr.12

  • 00:10
    Image for Franz Schubert

    Franz Schubert Quintet (D.667) in A major "Trout", second movement; Andante

    Performer: Emmanuel Ax [piano] Performer: Pamela Frank [violin] Performer: Rebecca Young [viola] Performer: Yo Yo Ma [cello] Performer: Edgar Meyer [double bass]

    Sony SK 61964, tr 2

  • 00:17
    Image for Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Indes Galante - contradanse

    Performer: Orchestra of the 18th Century Performer: Frans Bruggen [conductor]

    Philips 438 946-2, tr 9

  • 00:20
    Image for Richard Addinsell

    Richard Addinsell Warsaw concerto for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet [piano] Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra Performer: Hugh Wolff [conductor]

    Decca 460 503-2, Tr.1

  • 00:33
    Image for Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Johann Friedrich Fasch Overture (Suite) in G minor, third movement; Jardinier

    Performer: The English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock [conductor]

    Archiv Produktion 449 210-2, Tr.1

  • 00:35
    Image for John Lanchbery

    John Lanchbery Finale from The Tales of Beatrix Potter

    Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden Performer: John Lanchbery [conductor]

    EMI 0946 3 93230 2 9, Tr.8

  • 00:39
    Image for Cécile Louise Chaminade

    Cécile Louise Chaminade 6 Etudes de concert - book 1 Op.35 for piano no.2; Automne

    Performer: Stephen Hough [piano]

    Hyperion CDA 67890, tr 13

  • 00:45
    Image for Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade - symphonic suite (Op.35), Festival at Baghdad

    Performer: Kirov Orchestra Performer: Valery Gergiev

    Philips 470 840-2, Tr.4

  • 00:57
    Image for Peter Warlock

    Peter Warlock Bransles from Capriol suite

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Clio Gould [conductor]

    Apex 2564 62114-2, Tr.10

  • 01:02
    Image for Michel Camilo

    Michel Camilo Tropical Jam from Suite for Piano and Strings

    Performer: Michel Camilo [piano] Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin [conductor]

    Decca 468 817-2, Tr.4

  • 01:08
    Image for Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Fauré Agnus Dei from Requiem

    Performer: Tenebrae Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Nigel Short [conductor]

    LSO Live LSO 0728, tr 14

  • 01:15
    Image for Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann Quintet for piano and strings (Op.44) in E flat major, third movement

    Performer: Takacs Quartet Performer: Marc-Andre Hamelin [piano]

    Hyperion CDA 67631, Tr.3

  • 01:20
    Image for Johann Pachelbel

    Johann Pachelbel Canon and gigue for 3 violins and continuo in D major

    Performer: Academy for Ancient Music Performer: Christopher Hogwood [conductor]

    Decca 4105532, Tr.1

  • 01:26
    Image for Sir Edward Elgar

    Sir Edward Elgar The Wand of youth - suite no. 2 (Op.1b), The Little bells (Scherzino)

    Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Performer: James Judd

    Naxos 8.557166, Tr.9

  • 01:33
    Image for Antonio Vivaldi

    Antonio Vivaldi Dixit Dominus RV 595

    Performer: John Alldis Choir Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Vittorio Negri

    Philhips 462 234-2, CD 5, tr 19

  • 01:36
    Image for Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue No 4 in C sharp minor BWV 849 from The Well tempered Clavier, Book 1

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim [piano]

    Warner 2564 61553-2, Tr.7-8

  • 01:44
    Image for Thomas Arne

    Thomas Arne Overture no. 3 in G major, first movement; Presto

    Performer: Collegium Musicum 90 Performer: Simon Standage

    Chandos CHAN0722, Tr.10

  • 01:46
    Image for Camille Saint-Saëns

    Camille Saint-Saëns Danse macabre - symphonic poem (Op.40)

    Performer: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andres Cardenes [violin] Performer: Lorin Maazel

    Sony Classical SK 53979, Tr.6

  • 01:53
    Image for Ástor Piazzolla

    Ástor Piazzolla Libertango

    Performer: Luis Bacalov [piano] Performer: Hector Ulises Passarella [bandoneon] Performer: Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

    DG 463 471-2, tr 8

  • 02:02
    Image for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem (K.626) in D minor No.14; Lux aeterna (completed Sussmayr)

    Performer: Barbara Bonney [soprano] Performer: Monteverdi Choir Performer: English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner [conductor]

    Philips 420 197-2, tr 14

  • 02:08
    Image for Pieter Hellendaal

    Pieter Hellendaal Concerto No 3

    Performer: The European Community Baroque Orchestra Performer: Roy Goodman [conductor and violin]

    Channel CCS 3492, Trs.10-14

  • 02:20
    Image for Fryderyk Chopin

    Fryderyk Chopin 4 Mazurkas for piano (Op.67), no.2 in G minor

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy

    London 443 7382, Tr.14

  • 02:23
    Image for Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Pictures from an exhibition, 15th La Grande porte de Kiev (orchestrated Ravel)

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic

    EMI 50999 5 17582 2 6, Tr.15

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