01/05/2009

Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Choreographer Alastair Marriott joins Sean in the studio to talk about the Royal Ballet's upcoming performances of Les Sylphides/Sensorium and The Firebird.

Plus, Conductor Thomas Kemp and mezzo soprano Anna Grevelius talk to Sean about their performances at Brighton Festival. They will be performing, with Chamber Domaine, Sciarrino's orchestration of Rossini's Giovanna D'Arco alongside of Anish Kapoor's specially commissioned installation The Dismemberment of Jeanne D'Arc. Anna Grevelius will be performing in the studio.

E-mail: [email protected] With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
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1702
TCHAIKOVSKY
Polonaise from “Cherevichki”(The Tsarina’s Slippers)
The USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
OLYMPIA OCD136
Tr 4
6’08

1709
SCHUBERT
3 Klavierstücke D.946 (No.1 in E flat minor)
Imogen Cooper (piano)
AVIE AV2156
CD1
Tk6
7’25

17’17
DEBUSSY (arr Colin Matthews)
Le vent dans le plaine (Preludes: BookI no.3)
Hallé
Mark Elder (director)
CDHLL 7513
Tk14
2:50

1725
DEBUSSY
Des pas sur la neige: triste et lent (Preludes Book 1 no.6)
Steven Osborne (piano)
HYPERION CDA67530
Tk6
4’12

1735
TCHAIKOVSKY
Danse russe (Act III) “Cherevichki”(The Tsarina’s Slippers)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
NAXOS 8.554845
Tk7
3:43

1740
HANDEL / HALVORSEN
Passacaglia for Violin and Viola
Heinrich Koll (viola)
Alexandra Koll (violin)
NAXOS 8.557606
Tk 8
7:36

1748
SCHEIDT
Battle Suite (Canzon “in imitation of an English Bergamask”)
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
DECCA 289 467 746-2
Tr10
4’35

1754
MENDELSSOHN
Glosse
Anna Grevelius (mezzo soprano)
Eugene Asti (piano)
WHITE LABEL (HYPERION)
Tr5
4’31

1803
SCHUBERT
Overture in C Major, D591 ‘In the Italian Style’
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA 436 598 2
Tk 1
7’27

1811
POULENC
Ballabile from the cello sonata
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
3’16

1815
HENRY VIII
Consort XV1
Lynda Sayce (lute)
CCL CDG1148
Tk11
2’38

19’36
LIVE
ROSSINI (Orch Sciarrino)
Extract from Giovanna D’Arco
Anna Grevelius (Mezzo soprano)
Stephan de Pledge(Piano)
6’49

1833
LIVE
ROSSINI (Orch. Sciarrino)
Extract from Giovanna D’Arco
Anna Grevelius (Mezzo soprano)
Stephan de Pledge(Piano)
1’42

1839
ELGAR
Wand of Youth, Music to a Child’s Play (Second suite, op1b)
RLPO
Vernon Handley (conductor)
EMI
Trs14-17
10’08

1849
BACH
Sinfonia in D major, cantata n29, bwv 29
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Hyperion CDA 60379
Tr1
4’01

1854
CD
MACMILLAN
A New Song
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (director)
CORO COR16071
Tk9
5:13