Desert Island Discs: Classics in Paradise
Stephen Gunzenhauser · Aleksandrs Viļumanis · Andrew Schenck · Antoni Wit · Barry Wordsworth · Iona Brown · Jeremy Summerly · John Pritchard · Mátyás Antal · Michael Collins
Desert Island Discs: Classics in Paradise (1999), CD, on BBC Music. Music by Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Camille Saint-Saëns, performed by Stephen Gunzenhauser, Aleksandrs Viļumanis, Andrew Schenck, Antoni Wit; 20 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Disc 1
Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 5
Antoni Wit, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw
Vincenzo Bellini - Norma: Atto I, scena 1. Scena e cavatina “Casta diva, che inargenti” (Norma, coro)
Aleksandrs Viļumanis, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Inese Galante
Andante un poco musso from Piano Trio in B flat
Franz Schubert - Piano Trio no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 99, D. 898
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Iona Brown, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Disc 2
Allegro From Piano Concerto No. 23
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 23 in A major, K. 488
Softly Awakes My Heart From Samson And Delilah
Camille Saint-Saëns - Samson and Delilah : Act II, Scene 3. “Softly Awakes My Heart”
What Is Life To Me Without Thee, From Orpheus And Eurydice
Christoph Willibald von Gluck - Orpheus and Eurydice, Wq. 30, Act III: “What is life to me without thee” (Che farò senza Euridice)
Vivace From Double Violin Concerto
Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Oliver von Dohnányi, Cappella Istropolitana, Takako Nishizaki