A Classical Collection Programme 1

From the court of Louis XIV at Versailles through to Gilbert & Sullivan sung in German. David also focuses on conductors Bruno Walter and Sergiu Celibidache, and we hear Mahler recorded on a piano roll.

Roll mechanism of a Welte-Mignon reproducing piano. Image by Gerhard51, CC BY-SA 3.0

Bruno Walter in 1912. Imgae by W(enzel) Weis (1858-1930), Wien, Landstraßer Hauptstraße 67 (Andrea1903)

Soprano Victoria de los Angeles. Image by Allan Warren, CC BY-SA3.0

Italian tenor Tito Schipa with a painting of himself, in which he admires a bust of himself. Image by Bain News Service, publisher

Sergiu Celibidache giving a conducting lesson at The Curtis Institute in 1984 to David Bernard

The CD that nearly bankrupted Hyperion Records. Scanned image of CD cover.

The Pirates of Penzance in German. Scanned image of CD cover.

Bruno Walter conducts Mozart’s Requiem and other works. Scanned image of CD cover.

Music for the Sistine Chapel by Josquin and others. Scanned image of CD cover.

Celibidache conducts Schumann. Scanned image of CD cover.

Webster Booth CD and a Dalek

Bonus tracks:

• Corelli's Christmas Concerto
• Scriabin's Nocturne for the Left Hand

Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Photo by Erich Auerbach, 1929 Photo: Wilhelm Furtwangler Society

Music Details:

JS BACH: Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata no. 49, Ich geh und suche mit verlangen - German Bach Soloists/Helmut Winschermann (Philips 454346)

DELALANDE: Prelude, from Te Deum - Ex Cathedra/Jeffrey Skidmore (Hyperion CDA 67235)

MAHLER: Ging heut’ morgens übers feld, from Songs of a Wayfarer - Gustav Mahler (pno roll) (IMP Classics 790202)

SULLIVAN: Ah, leave me not to pine, from The Pirates of Penzance (sung in German) - Arleen Auger, Peter Bahrig, Bonn Philharmonic Chorus, Cologne Radio Orch/ Franz Marzalek (Gala GL 100.566)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis - Philharmonia/Sir Malcolm Sargent (EMI 5 74782)

MOZART: Dies Irae, from Requiem - Irmgard Seefried, Jennie Tourel, Leopold Simoneau, William Warfield, Westminster Choir & New York Philharmonic/Bruno Walter (Sony SM3K 47211)

LOCKE: Courante from Suite no. 5 in F minor, from The Consort of Fower Parts - Hesperion XX/ Jordi Savall (dir) (Astree ES 9921)

PUCCINI: Senza Mamma, from Suor Angelica - Victoria de los Angeles, Rome Opera orch/Tullio Serafin (EMI 7 64165)

LE ROUX: Allemande gaye, from Suite no 4 in A - Christophe Rousset (hpschd) (L’Oiseau-Lyre 443 329)

DONAUDY: O del mio amato ben - Tito Schipa, orch/A. Semprini (78) (HMV D.B.2131)

JOSQUIN: Benedicta es - Pomerium/Alexander Blachly (Glissando 779 001)

SCHUMANN: Symphony no. 4 in D minor - Munich PO/Sergiu Celibidache (EMI 5 56525)

HANDEL: Love sounds the alarm, from Acis & Galatea - Webster Booth (ten), orch/Warwick Braithwaite (Dutton CDLX 7032)

CHARPENTIER ARR LECOT: Medee overture - Jean-Paul Lecot (organ) (Forlane UCD 16611)