Breakfast - Mendelssohn Weekend - Mary King

As part of Radio 3's Mendelssohn Weekend, 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 music ranging from an excerpt from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony to Attwood's anthem Come Holy Ghost and Weber's Konzertstuck in F minor, Op 79, plus works by Schumann and Beethoven. With pieces by Mendelssohn himself, including his Three Studies, the String Symphony No 2 in D and the Caprice No 2 in E, as well as a specially-commissioned new Song Without Words. Complete Playlist: 0703 MENDELSSOHN String Symphony No. 2 in D major Niuew Sinfonietta Amsterdam Lev Markiz, conductor BIS-CD-939 CD 2 Tr 1-3 0714 J.S.BACH Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV543 Christopher Herrick, organ HYPERION CDA6679/2 CD 1 T 4-5 0725 MENDELSSOHN Three Studies (Op.104b) Martin Jones, piano NIMBUS NI5071 T.18-20 0733 MACFARREN Chevy Chace Overture English Northern Philharmonia David Lloyd-Jones, conductor HELIOS CDH55088 TR 1 0741 SCHUMANN Adagio from String Quartet in A minor (Op. 41, No.1) Zehetmair Quartet ECM 4721692 Tr 3 0747 MOZART 4th mvt Molto allegro from "Jupiter" Symphony (K.551) Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne Gunter Wand, conductor TESTAMENT SBT1304 T.12 0754 MENDELSSOHN Der Gluckliche & Hirtenlied, from 6 Songs, op 88 RIAS Kammerchor Hans-Christoph Rademann, director HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901992 T. 20-21 0803 BACH Sanctus from B Minor Mass The Monteverdi Choir The English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner, conductor DG 469778-2 CD 9 T.10 0812 SCHUBERT Scherzo from Symphony No. 9 in C major (D. 944) “Great" Berlin Philharmonic Simon Rattle, conductor EMI 094633938229 Tr 3 0824 MENDELSSOHN Capriccio in F sharp minor (Op. 5) Benjamin Frith, piano Naxos 8.553541 T14 0831 SCARLATTI Sonata in F major, K38 Scott Ross, harpsichord Warner 2564-60030-2 T.5 0834 MENDELSSOHN Prelude and Fugue in D minor (Op. 37, No. 3) Margaret Philips, organ REGENT REGCD209 CD 2 T.10-11 0842 ATTWOOD Come Holy Ghost The Choir of New College Oxford Ryan Wigglesworth, organ Edward Higginbottom, director CRD 3510 T.6 0848 STERNDALE BENNETT Barcarole from Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor (Op.19) BBC Scottish Chamber Orchestra Howard Shelley, piano and conductor HYPERION CDA67595 T.2 0756 MEREDITH Camberwell Green Andrew Zolinsky, piano BBC RECORDING 0903 MENDELSSOHN Wir glauben all an einen Gott Kammerchor Stuttgart Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Frieder Bernius, director CARUS 83.216 T.10-12 0910 WEBER Konzertstück in F minor (Op. 79) Russian National Orchestra Mikhail Pletnev, conductor DG 453 486-2 T.1-4 0926 MENDELSSOHN Caprice No. 2 in E major (Op.33) Martin Jones, piano NIMBUS 5069 T2 0933 SCHUMANN Erinnerung from Album fur die Jügend (Op.68) Angela Brownridge, piano HELIOS CDH55039 T.28 0936 BEETHOVEN Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Op.112) Corydon Singers Corydon Orchestra Matthew Best Hyperion CDA66880 T.14 0946 MENDELSSOHN Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Op. 27) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Kurt Masur, conductor BERLIN CLASSICS 0002452CCC CD 3 T.5 0957 MENDELSSOHN Song Without Words, op 102, No 3 The English Guitar Quartet Saydisc CDSDL379 T.1