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An unpresented sequence or music to celebrate Maytime - a mix of spring and summer, three cuckoos, a nightingale, a dash of melancholy and an 'obby 'oss to follow.
Music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Thomas Morley, Vivaldi and Max Richter, Elgar, Daquin, Joseph Marx, Schumann and Dave Webber.

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Wed 1 May 201919:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anon.

    Sumer is icumen in

    Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    May (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.

  • Thomas Morley

    Now is the month of maying

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • EMI.

  • Anthony Holborne

    Heigh Ho Holiday Galliard

    Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
    • CBS.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 295, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'

    Performer: Bob van Asperen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Virgin.

  • Louis‐Claude Daquin

    Le coucou (Harpsichord Suite no.3)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Edward Elgar

    May Song

    Performer: Marat Bisengaliev. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Elgar: The Violin Music.
    • NAXOS.
    • 12.

  • Robert Schumann

    Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis Op.39.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Marx

    Maienblüten (L. Jacobowsky)

    Performer: Katerina Karneus. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Song Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 121.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring 2 (The Four Seasons Recomposed)

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: André de Ridder.
    • DG.

  • Dave Webber

    Hail, Hail the First of May

    Performer: Jon Boden.
    • Navigator Records.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 May 201919:00
    BBC Radio 3

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