
Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With composer George Crumb and conductor Diego Mason, ahead of tonight's Prom to celebrate the composer's 80th birthday and Gewhandaus Orchestra conductor Riccardo Chailly
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With composer George Crumb and conductor Diego Mason, ahead of tonight's Prom with the Nash Ensemble to celebrate the composer's 80th birthday and the Gewhandaus Orchestra's conductor Riccardo Chailly in Leipzig as they prepare to perform at the Proms next week.
17:02
VIVALDI
The Chase from The Nightmare Concerto RV 439
Red Priest
Piers Adams [recorder]
DORIAN DOR 90305
Track 6
2â€Äô21
17:05
WOLF (orch Wolf)
Harfenspieler-Lieder (We sich der Einsamkeit ergibt)
Matthias Goerne [baritone]
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly [conductor]
DECCA 458 189-2
Track 1
4â€Äô23
17:10
TRADITIONAL (arr George Crumb)
American Songbook IV (Shenandoah from The Winds of Destiny)
Barbara Ann Martin [soprano]
Orchestra 2001
James Freeman [conductor]
BRIDGE 9275A/B
CD 2 Track 9
3â€Äô53
17:21
GEORGE CRUMB
Proterzoic from Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)
Claire Chase [flute]
Kivie Cahn-Lipman [cello]
Jacob Greenberg [piano]
BRIDGE 9261
Track 16
2â€Äô09
17:28
BERIO
Folksongs (Black is the colour, Azerbaijan Love Song)
Linda Hirst [mezzo soprano]
London Sinfonietta
Diego Masson [conductor]
VIRGIN VC790704-2
Tracks 1,2 & 11
5â€Äô11
17:34
MOZART
Piano Concerto NO 23 in A major K488 (final movement)
Mitsuko Uchida [piano and director]
The Cleveland Orchestra
DECCA 478 1524
Track 6
8â€Äô07
17:44
HANDEL
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Eternal Source of Light Devine & The day that gave great Anna birth)
Susan Gritton [soprano]
Robin Blaze [countertenor]
Michael George [bass]
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
The Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury
EMI 7243 5 57140 2 2
Tracks 16 and 17
5â€Äô52
17:50
WALTON
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
CHANDOS 8870
Tracks 1-2
8â€Äô33
18:03
LIEGETI
Romanian Concerto (Final mvt – Molto vivace)
Berlin Philharmonic
Jonathan Nott
TELDEC 8573 88261-2
Track 9
4â€Äô56
18:08
RIMSKY KORSAKOV
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Christian Lindberg [trombones]
Roland Pöntinen [piano]
BIS
Track 1
1â€Äô07
18.10
Sound of the Bumwa, the Assamese woodworm; Ceremonial chant from Fiji (Yangonna, recorded Fiji, 1957)
It’s a Long way to Tipperary (recorded in Newcastle, 1979)
From the British Library Sound Archive
18:15
GRAINGER
Brigg Fair (Folk song from Lincolnshire)
English Country Gardniner Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner
PHILIPS 446 657-2
Track 2
3â€Äô03
18:19
MENDELSSOHN
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Ricardo Chailly
DECCA 475 6939
Track 1
11â€Äô55
18:37
MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No 3 in E minor (Final movement)
Roberto Prosseda [piano]
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Ricardo Chailly
DECCA 478 1525
Track 8
4â€Äô39
18:47
BRAHMS
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major Op 77
Vadim Repin [violin]
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Ricardo Chailly
DG 477 7470
Track 3
7â€Äô47
18:56â€Äô15
DAVE BRUBECK
History of a Boy Scout
Dave Brubeck Quartet
PHILIPS BBE 12188
3â€Äô23
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