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Rob Cowan on how composers besides Debussy have explored the story of Pelleas and Melisande, including Sibelius and Wallace. Plus Howells's Te Deum and Miaskovsky's Symphony No 15.

Rob Cowan looks at how different composers besides Debussy have explored the story of Pelleas and Melisande, including Sibelius and Wallace.

The week's choral work is Herbert Howells' Te Deum, and Rob also starts a brief season of lesser known Russian symphonies, starting with Miaskovsky's Symphony No 15.

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2 hours, 57 minutes

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Sun 26 Oct 2014 09:00

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La Belle Helene: Overture
Conductor: Ernest Ansermet. Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra.
- Overtures Francais: Famous French Overtures.
- Decca Eloquence.
Hector Berlioz

The Damnation of Faust: Hungarian March
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.
- Karajan: Berlioz, Franck, Puccini, Mascagni.
- Warner Classics.
Herbert Howells

Te Deum
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill. Choir: Bach Choir.
- Stabat Mater.
- Naxos.
Luigi Boccherini

Two Fuges for two cellos in F major Op. 73/2 and B flat major Op. 73/3
Performer: Anner Bylsma. Performer: Kenneth Slowik.
- Boccherini: Cello Sonatas, Fugues for 2 Cellos.
- Sony.
Claude Debussy

Pelleas et Melisande: Preludes and Interludes
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf.
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Twentieth Century.
- Chicago Sympony.
John Field

Nocturne No. 13 in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quartet in G major K156
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
- Die Fruhen Streich-Quartette: The Early String Quartets.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Gabriel Fauré

Pelleas et Melisande Suite
Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
- Pavane: Pelleas et Melisande, Masques et Bergamasques Suite, Fantasie for Flute.
- Argo.
Johannes Brahms

Von ewiger Liebe Op. 43 No. 1
Singer: Edda Moser. Performer: Erik Werba.
- Edda Moser: Electrola Recitals, Lied & Oper.
- EMI.
Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky

Symphony No. 15 in D minor, Op. 38
Orchestra: USSR TV and Radio Large Symphony Orchestra, Moscow. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
- Shostakovich/Miaskovsky Symphonies.
- Audiophile Classics.
Eugène Ysaÿe

Poeme elegiaque in D minor, Op. 12
Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Vladimir Yampolsky.
- DG.
Richard Wagner

Tannhauser: Dich teure Halle...
Conductor: Peter Schneider. Singer: Edda Moser. Orchestra: Zurich Radio Orchestra.
- Edda Moser: Opern-Recital.
- EMI.
Jean Sibelius

Pelleas et Melisande: At the castle gate; A spring in the park
Conductor: Petri Sakari. Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
- Suites from Pelleas et Melisande, King Christian II, Swanwhite.
- Chandos.
William Wallace

Pelleas et Melisande: Suite - The Love of Pelleas for Melisande: Spinning Song;
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
- Creation Symphony, Pelleas and Melisande, etc..
- Helios.