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Jonathan Swain

Jonathan Swain presents vocal music by Janacek, Buxtehude, Tormis and Sibelius. The young artist is violinist Callum Smart and a French season continues with Ravel and Debussy.

Following yesterday's Building A Library theme of Ensaladas, musical mini-dramas, Jonathan Swain not only plays the pick of these pieces but he explores vocal music by Janacek, Buxtehude, Tormis and Sibelius. The week's young artist is violinist Callum Smart, plus the French impressionism season continues with music from Ravel and Debussy.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Oct 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • France-Espagne.
    • Actes Sud.
    • 001.
  • anon

    Cantiga de Santa María No.340 'Virgen, madre groriosa'

    Singer: Pilar Figueras. Singer: Zeger Vandersteene. Singer: Pedro Liendo. Ensemble: Clemencic Consort. Director: René Clemencic.
    • Troubadours / Cantigas De Santa Maria.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 009.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Callum Smart. Performer: Richard Uttley.
    • La Voix.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 005.
  • María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir

    Sleeping Pendulum

    Performer: Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir. Ensemble: Nordic Affect.
    • Clockworking.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 006.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. posth.

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • The Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 010.
  • Leos Janáček

    Marycka Magdonova

    Choir: Moravian Teachers' Choir. Conductor: Antonin Tucapsky.
    • Janacek - Famous Male Choruses.
    • SOMM.
    • 008.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Salve, Jesu BuxWV 94

    Singer: Suzie LeBlanc. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.
    • Salve, Jesu BuxWV 94.
    • Chandos.
    • 007.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Capriccio BWV992 on the departure of a beloved Brother

    Performer: Andreas Staier.
    • Early Works.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 027.
  • Veljo Tormis

    Piispa ja pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan)

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Baltic Runes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 006.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Luonnotar, Op.70

    Singer: Anu Komsi. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Anu Komsi: Coloratura.
    • BIS.
    • 010.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Vstrechniy, Op. 33 - The Counterplan Song

    Performer: Yuri Serov. Singer: Mikhail Lukonin.
    • Shostakovich: Complete Songs.
    • Delos.
    • 004.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Violin Sonata

    Performer: Callum Smart. Performer: Richard Uttley.
    • La Voix.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 001.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sarabande

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Boléro / Pictures At An Exhibition.
    • Decca.
    • 002.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Boléro / Pictures At An Exhibition.
    • Decca.
    • 003.
  • Claude Debussy

    En blanc et noir

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • Piano Duets.
    • Decca.
    • 012.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Stéphane Mallarmé songs: No.1 Soupir

    Ensemble: Accentus. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Adagio for choir and other choral transcriptions.
    • Naive.
    • 005.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Music for the film Counterplan Op.33 -'Song of the Meeting' retext. Harold Rome

    Singer: Igor Gorin. Orchestra: Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles O'Connell.
    • The First Hundred Years and Beyond.
    • Nimbus Prima Voce.
    • 013.

Broadcast

  • Sun 23 Oct 2016 09:00