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Katie Derham introduces live music from pianist Ariel Lanyi. Plus Philip Mould talks to Katie about ‘Garden to Canvas: Cedric Morris & Benton End’ a new exhibition bringing together a selection of Cedric Morris’ flower paintings.

2 hours

Last on

Tue 20 May 202517:00

Music Played

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Suffolk Suite (Framlingham Castle)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • BIS.
  • Frank Bridge

    The Bee

    Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson. Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Pelham Humfrey

    Where the Bee Sucks

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Author: William Shakespeare. Singer: Robin Blaze.
    • English Lute Songs: Ayres for Countertenor.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    "The Bee's Wedding" (Songs Without Words)

    • Bach/Busoni; Mendelssohn; Schubert/Liszt - Songs Without Words.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of The Bumblebee

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Singer: Bobby McFerrin.
    • Hush.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Tale of the Stone Flower: Waltz

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Prokofiev: The Tale of the Stone Flower.
    • Chandos.
    • 121.
  • Robert Schumann

    Gesänge der Frühe: 5th mvt

    Performer: Ariel Lanyi.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies: BBCSO, Davies.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sein Allmacht zu ergrunden (Cantata128)

    Lyricist: Christiane Mariane von Ziegler. Lyricist: Matthaus Avenarius. Lyricist: Ernst Sonnemann. Singer: Robin Blaze. Singer: Makoto Sakurada. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 35 - Bwv 74, 87, 128, 176.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Max Reger

    Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach (extract)

    Performer: Ariel Lanyi.
    • LINN.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet (4th mvt)

    Performer: Romain Guyot. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Mats Zetterqvist. Performer: Pascal Siffert. Performer: Richard Lester.
    • Mozart: Concerto & Quintet for clarinet: Romain Guyot/Chamber Orchestra of Europ.
    • Mirare.
    • 7.
  • César Franck

    Finale (Prelude, Aria and Finale)

    Performer: Ariel Lanyi.
    • LINN.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Matinées musicales, Op. 24: III. Waltz

    Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Britten, B.: Piano Concerto / Soirees Musicales / Matinees Musicales.
    • Ondine.
    • 13.
  • Paule Maurice

    The Bumblebee (Pictures of Provence)

    Performer: Julia Nolan. Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC.
  • James Oswald

    Persian Iris (Airs for the Seasons)

    Ensemble: Rezonance Baroque Ensemble. Director: Joanna Marsden.
    • James Oswald: Airs for the Seasons.
    • Leaf Music.
    • 36.
  • John Wilbye

    Flora gave me fairest flowers

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • John Wilbye: Draw On Sweet Night.
    • CORO.
    • 22.
  • Anoushka Shankar

    Flight

    Performer: Manu Delago. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Music Arranger: Nitin Sawhney.
    • Traces of you.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op. 53: Prelude No. 19 in E-Flat Major

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Kapustin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; 24 Preludes in Jazz Style.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

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