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.
Bonus tracks:
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)