Sunday Morning - Late and Last Works

Mary considers swansongs, posthumous discoveries and unfinished sketches in a programme of composers' last works. Handel: Overture (The Triumph of Time and Truth) London Handel Orchestra Denys Darlow (conductor) Hyperion CDA66071/2 Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat Final movement (Allegro non troppo; Presto) Lief Ove Andsnes (piano) EMI 5579012 Brahms: O Tod wie bitter bist du; Wenn ich mit Menschen (Four Serious Songs) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Jorg Demus (piano) DG 4151892 Prokofiev: Concertino in G minor, Op 132 (Allegretto) Arranged by Vladimir Blok; Cadenza by Alfred Schnittke Alexander Ivashkin (cello) Russian State Symphony Orchestra Valeri Polyansky (conductor) Chandos CHAN 9890 Sibelius: Symphony No 7 New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein (conductor) Sony Classical SM2K47622 (2) Bach: The Art of Fugue - 9th Variation Contrapunctus IX Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano) DG 477 7345 Stravinsky: Lacrimosa; Libera me; Postlude (Requiem Canticles) Suisse Romande Orchestra Choeur Pro Arte of Lausanne Neeme Jarvi (conductor) Chandos 94008 Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor Joseph Szigeti (violin) Bela Bartok (piano) Vanguard VCD72025 Mozart: The Confutatis; Lacrimosa (Requiem) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Phillips 4201972 Kurt Weill: Lost in the Stars Simon Estes Bavarian Radio Chorus Munich Radio Chorus Willie Anthony Waters (conductor) Philips 4260582 Janacek: Opera Suite from the House of the Dead (excerpt) Prague Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Supraphon SU 34362 Strauss: Beim Schlafengehen (Four Last Songs) Barbara Hendricks (soprano) Philadelphia Orchestra Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) EMI CDC 5555942 Beethoven: Quartet No 13, Op 130 (Finale) Alban Berg Quartet EMI CDS 7471358 Verdi: Tutto nel mondo e burla (Falstaff) Falstaff ...... Geraint Evans (baritone) RCA Italiana Choir and Orchestra Georg Solti (conductor) DECCA 4171682.