4 February 2007
Sunday 4 February 2007 16:00-17:45 (Radio 3)
Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests, including Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Peter Maxwell Davies's An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise, Haydn's Keyboard Sonata No 53 and Finzi's sublime Dies Natalis.
Duration:
1 hour 45 minutes
Playlist
JOHN ADAMS : A SHORT RIDE IN A FAST MACHINE
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart (conductor)
Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79144-2, T 4
HANDEL : WHERE'ER YOU WALK
Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
Decca LP SPA 566 S1, B1
HAYDN :PIANO SONATA No. 53 in E minor, H.XV1:34
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony SK 53635, T 4-6
BEETHOVEN : CREDO from MISSA SOLEMNIS
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Catherine Robbin (mezzo), William Kendall (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 429 779-2, T 3
DELIUS : ON HEARING THE FIRST CUCKOO IN SPRING
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI CDS 7 47509-8, CD 2, T 3
FINZI : DIES NATALIS, Op. 8
Wilfred Brown (tenor) / English Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Finzi (conductor)
EMI CDM 5 65588-2, T 9-13
MAXWELL DAVIES : AN ORKNEY WEDDING, WITH SUNRISE
George Mcllwham (bagpipes), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Peter Maxwell-Davies (conductor)
Unicorn Kanchana DKP (CD) 9070, T 1
BEETHOVEN : FUR ELISE
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Teldec 9031-73868-2, T 2
ELGAR : SOFTLY AND GENTLY (Dream of Gerontius)
Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
EMI CMS 7 63185-2, CD 2, T 13
