
11/02/2018
This week, Sarah Walker's Sunday escape is Handel's Largo, Ombra mai fu.
This week, Sarah Walker's Sunday escape comes from Handel's opera Serse, it's a setting of his famous 'Largo', Ombra mai fu. There's more operatic work from Henry Purcell and part of Mendelssohn's incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", as well as Haydn's Symphony No 93, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, and chamber works from Satie and Janacek.
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Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen: Symphony
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Purcell: The Fairy Queen.
- Archiv.
- 001.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.93 in D
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Mark Minkowski.- Naive.
- V5176.
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Black Brittany
Performer: Garth Knox. Performer: Agnès Vesterman.- Saltarello.
- ECM.
- 001.
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Guillaume IX de Poitiers
Ab la dolchor del temps novel
Composer: Anonymous. Singer: Francois Harismendy. Ensemble: Camerata Mediterranea. Conductor: Joel Cohen.- Lo Gai Saber.
- Erato.
- 012.
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François Couperin
Les Ombres errantes
Performer: Christophe Rousset.- Couperin~: Fourth Book of Harpsichord Pieces.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 011.
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Maurice Ravel
Tombeau de Couperin
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- Ravel: Shéhérazade & Le tombeau de Couperin and Debussy: Ballades de Villon.
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 4.
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Leroy Anderson
Bugler's Holiday
Performer: William Sullivan. Performer: Sheldon Hyde. Performer: Keith Smith. Ensemble: Utah Symphony. Conductor: Maurice Abravanel.- Utah Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Works.
- Vanguard.
- 005.
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Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's lustige Streiche
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- Strauss: Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel.
- Orfeo.
- 011.
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Leos Janáček
Romance, JW VII/3
Performer: Hagai Shaham. Performer: Arnon Erez.- Hagai Shaham: Violin Sonatas.
- Hyperion.
- 013.
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Erik Satie
Trois Gymnopédies
Performer: Pascal Rogé.- Satie: 3 Gymnopedies & Other Piano works.
- Decca.
- 001.
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Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.- Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Glossa.
- 002.
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Claude Debussy
Preludes Book 1: La Danse de Puck
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- Debussy: Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol.1.
- Decca.
- 011.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.5: Adagietto
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.- Valery Gergiev: Symphony No.5.
- LSO Live.
- 004.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance no 5 in F-sharp minor
Music Arranger: Thomas Dausgaard. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- Brahms: Symphony No.2.
- BIS.
- 17.
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Neal Hefti
Lil' Darlin'
Orchestra: The Count Basie Orchestra.- The Atomic Mr Basie.
- Roulette.
- 011.
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George Frideric Handel
Serse: Frondi Tenere; Ombra mai fu
Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- Andreas Scholl: Voice.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 005.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont Overture
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orcehstra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.- Beethoven: Overtures.
- Philips.
- 2.
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Orlando Gibbons
O Clap Your Hands Together
Ensemble: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.- Gibbons: Choral and Organ Music.
- Naxos.
- 001.
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John Tavener
The Protecting Veil: Movement. 1
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.- The Protecting Veil.
- Virgin Classics.
- 001.
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Pau Casals
Sardana
Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Guy Johnston. Ensemble: CBSO Cellos.- Inspiration.
- Decca.
- 10.
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Elena Kats‐Chernin
Eliza's Aria
Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska. Performer: Elena Kats‐Chernin.- Butterflying: Piano Music by Elena Kats-Chernin.
- ABC Classics.
- 1.
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Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March no. 3 in C minor
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance; Symphony No.1.
- Classics For Pleasure.
- 003.
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