30 September 2007
Sunday 30 September 2007 10:00-12:00 (Radio 3)
Iain ponders philosophy in music, with Steve Reich's Proverb, Bernstein's Serenade for violin, strings, harp and percussion, and works by Strauss, Mahler and Nietzsche.
Playlist
Nietzsche: Dae zerbrochene Ringlein
Elena Letnanova
Talent DOM291031
Telemann: Overture Der geduldige Socrates
Capella Savaria and Nicholas McGegan
Hungaroton HCD1295760
Satie: La mort de Socrate
Particia Rozario, with Richard Bernas conducting Music Projects London.
Factory FACD356
Bernstein: Serenade for solo Violin - 1st mvt Phaedrus [after Plato: Symposium]
Hilary Hahn, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with David Zinman
SONY Classical SK60584
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier Book I No 3 (BMV 848)
Ton Koopman
Erato 2292454282
Wagner: Parsifal: Prelude to act 1
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Pierre Boulez
DG 4357182
Handel: Choice of Hercules (HWS69) 'Come Blooming Boy'
Susan Gritton, The Kingis Consort and Choir with Robert King
Hyperion CDA67298
Mahler: Third Symphony, 4th Mvt 'Zarathustrais midnight song'
Hanna Schwarz, New London Children's Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra and David Hill
DG 4470512
Lutyens: Wittgenstein Motet: Excerpta Tractati Logico - Philosophici op.27
Exaudi and James Weeks
NMC D124
Prokofiev: Concerto 4th Movement of concerto No.4
Leon Fleisher, The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa
Sony Classical SK47188
Haydn: Symphony No.22 in E flat 'The Philosopher'
The Hanover Band and Roy Goodman
Hyperion CDA66536
Steve Reich: Proverb,
Theatre of Voices, the Steve Reich Ensemble and Paul Hillier
Nonesuch 7559794302