27/01/2009

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.

Conductor Valery Gergiev talks to Sean about his forthcoming concerts of Stravinsky and Bartok with the London Symphony Orchestra as well as his residency with the Mariinsky Theatre at the Barbican Centre, London.

And harpist Catrin Finch performs her new harp arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations in the studio.

17:02
MOSZKOWSKI
Etincelles op.36 no.6
Stephen Hough (piano)
HYPERION CDA 6704
Track 5
2’52

17:06
KHATCHATURIAN
Spartacus (Adagio)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
PHILIPS 442 011 2
Track 3
8’45

17:15
LIVE
BACH
Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Aria & Variation 1)
Catrin Finch (harp)
4’58

17:25
LIVE
BACH
Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Variation 25 “Black Pearl”)
Catrin Finch (harp)
7’25

17:38
LIVE
BACH
Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Variations 29-30)
Catrin Finch (harp)
3’09

17:43
MOZART
Exsultate, jubilate, K.165
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
EMI 3 87894 2
CD 39
Track 14
15’50

18:03
BRAHMS
Intermezzo in B flat minor op.117 no.2
Nicholas Angelich (piano)
VIRGIN 379302 2
CD 2
Track 2
5’05

18:09
STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring (Sacrificial Dance)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
PHILIPS 468 035 2
Track 14
4’55

18:18
TCHAIKOVSKY
Queen of Spades (It’s close on midnight already…)
Maria Gulegina (Liza)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
PHILIPS 4381412
CD 3
Tracks 4-5
5’43

18:29
MAHLER
Symphony No.1 (2nd Movement)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
LSO0663
Track 2
8’14

18:38
SCHUMANN
Marchenerzahlungen, op.132
Michel Portal (clarinet)
Gérard Caussé (viola)
Mikhail Rudy (piano)
EMI CDC 7 54824
Tracks 6-9
15’21

18:54
BYRD
Mass for Five Voices (Sanctus)
The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood (director)
ASV CD GAU 206
Track 15
5’10