Breakfast - Mendelssohn Weekend - Mary King

As part of Radio 3's Mendelssohn Weekend, marking 200 years since his birth, Mary King presents a programme exploring the composer's wider sound-world. What would he have listened to? Who were his contemporary and historical heroes? With a varied selection of music, ranging from Bach's Triple Piano Concerto in D minor, BWV 1063 to Schubert's Erlkonig, D328, plus works by Lassus and Bach, and an excerpt from Handel's Israel in Egypt. There are also pieces by Mendelssohn himself, including his Organ Sonata, Op 65, No 5 and the Trumpet Overture, Op 101, as well as a specially-commissioned new Song Without Words. Complete Playlist: 0703 MENDELSSOHN Variations concertantes, op 17 Richard Lester, cello Susan Tomes, piano LDR 1003 Tr 4 0714 HANDEL/MENDELSSOHN Muss ich dem Teuren Klage weihn Julia Kleiter, soprano NDR Chor Festspiel Orchester Gottingen Nicholas McGegan, conductor CARUS 83.420 TR 26 0719 BULL Visit to a Summer Farm including The Herd Girl’s Sunday Arve Tellefsen, violin Bergen Symphony Orchestra Karsten Andersen, conductor NORWEGIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL NKFCD50008-2 TR 5 0728 PALESTRINA Tu es Petrus Choir of King’s College Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, director ARGO 4101492 T8 0732 MENDELSSOHN Capriccio in E Minor, op 81 No 3 Bartholdy Quartet ACANTA 43075 CD 3 TR 5 0742 J.S.BACH Concerto for Three Keyboards in D Minor, BWV1063 Guher & Suher Pekinel, pianos Zurcher Kammerorchester Howard Griffiths, conductor Warner 256461950-2 Tr 7-9 0756 MENDELSSOHN Wasserfahrt Felicity Lott, soprano Ann Murray, mezzo EMI 094635083323 CD 2 Tr 6 0802 MENDELSSOHN Trumpet Overture in C Major, op 101 Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Kurt Masur, conductor BERLIN CLASSICS 0002452CCC CD 3 T.3 0812 HANDEL Extracts from Israel in Egypt Hans Jorg Mammel, tenor Monika Frimmer (??), soprano Rheinische Kantorei Das Kleine Konzert Hermann Max, director CPO 777222-2 CD 2 T.16-20 0820 MENDELSSOHN Prelude and Fugue No 2 in D Martin Jones, piano Nimbus NI5071 T.3-4 0827 FRANCES-HOAD Song Without Words Andrew Zolinsky, piano BBC RECORDING 0833 GADE Scherzo from Symphony no 1, op 5 Danish National Symphony Orchestra Christopher Hogwood, conductor CHANDOS 10026 Tr 2 0839 MENDELSSOHN Sonata for Organ, Op 65 No 5 in D Wouter Van Den Broek, organ EMERGO EC3999-2 T.5 0848 SCHUBERT Erlkonig, D328 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Gerald Moore, piano DG 4310852 T.18 0853 MENDELSSOHN Agitato from Songs without words, op 38 Luba Edlina, piano CHANDOS 89489 CD 21 TR 5 0856 MENDELSSOHN Der wandernde Musikant, from 6 Songs, op 88 RIAS Kammerchor Hans-Christoph Rademann, director Harmonia Mundi HMC901992 Tr 24