19/08/2008

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the music world. Peter Holman talks about this year's Suffolk Villages Festival which starts this week with a performance of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, and jazz singer/pianist Estelle Kokot plays live in the studio ahead of her appearance at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club.

Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 4398922
Track 3
5’29

Purcell
Destruction’s our delight; The Witches Dance (Dido & Aeneas, Act III Scene I)
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN0586
Tracks 33-34
1’42

Walter Lambe
Stella caeli
Orlando Consort
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907297
Track 18
5’49

Blow
God spake sometime in visions
Soloists
Winchester Cathedral Choir
The Parley of Instruments
David Hill (conductor)
HYPERION CDD22055
CD 1 Track 1
12’09

Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)
EMI CDM7647362
Tracks 13-16
16’18

Beethoven
5 Variations on “Rule Britannia”, WoO 79
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901775
Track 3
4’53

Handel
Concerto grosso in G, Op 3 No 3
English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)
ARCHIV 4137272
Tracks 9-11
7’40

LIVE
Estelle Kokot
Sirens
Estelle Kokot (piano & vocals)
3’22

LIVE
Estelle Kokot
Where is the Rainbow
Estelle Kokot (piano & vocals)
4’11

Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite No 2
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
SONY SMK47613
Tracks 21-23
11’51

Saint-Saens
Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op 79
Nash Ensemble
HYPERION CDA67432
CD 2 Track 12
10’37