Performance on 3 - Stephen Kovacevich

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, with pianist Stephen Kovacevich performing Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. It was the piece that made Kovacevich's international reputation as he burst onto the scene in 1969. The programme also features Bach's Partita No 4 and Schumann's kaleidoscopic Kinderszenen, with movements including Blind Man's Bluff, Knight of the Hobbyhorse through to his famous Dreaming. Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Bach: Partita No 4 in D, BWV 828 Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15 Beethoven: Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op 120 Followed by a focus on music written in Vienna around 1900: R.Strauss: Nun lachst du mir wieder, du fluchtiges Gluck from The 1001 Nights Steve Davislim - Tenor German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrucken-Kaiserslautern Christoph Poppen - Conductor Recorded: 09th March 2008 at Fruit Hall, Kaiserlautern R.STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier - waltz sequence no. 2 German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrucken-Kaiserslautern Christoph Poppen - Conductor Recorded: 09th March 2008 at Fruit Hall, Kaiserlautern Lehar: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from The Land of smiles Ildiko Raimondi - Mezzo-soprano German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrucken-Kaiserslautern Christoph Poppen - Conductor Recorded: 09th March 2008 at Fruit Hall, Kaiserlautern J.Strauss: Dieser Anstand, so manierlich from Die Fledermaus Ildiko Raimondi - Mezzo-soprano German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrucken-Kaiserslautern Christoph Poppen - Conductor Recorded: 09th March 2008 at Fruit Hall, Kaiserlautern J.Strauss: Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Op.214) Ildiko Raimondi - Mezzo-soprano German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrucken-Kaiserslautern Christoph Poppen - Conductor Recorded: 09th March 2008 at Fruit Hall, Kaiserlautern Lehar: Lippen schweigen from The Merry widow Richard Tauber - Tenor Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Conductor ASV AJA 5146 1/5