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Summer Selection

14 August 2004

The journalist, writer and broadcaster Sheena McDonald makes her personal choice of music and looks ahead to the forthcoming week of Proms. Her taste runs to choral music by Bach, John Tavener, Mozart and Barber, plus jazz from
the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Richter playing Prokofiev and Teresa Stratas singing Kurt Weill.

Duration:

3 hours

Playlist

ADAMS
Short ride in a fast machine for orchestra
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM S O.
Simon RATTLE - Conductor
EMI CLASSICS CDC 555 051-2

PURCELL
March (from 'Queen Mary's funeral music'Z.860)
EQUALE
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER (conductor)
ERATO 4509 96553-2

BACH
Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV.248
- Pt.4, no.42; Jesus richte mein Beginnen
NETHERLANDS BACH SOCIETY CHORUS
NETHERLANDS BACH SOCIETY BAROQUE ORCH
JOS VAN VELDHOVEN (conductor)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 20103

TAVENER
Annunciation WESTMINSTER ABBEY CHOIR
MARTIN BAKER (organ)
MARTIN NEARY (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SK 66613

BEETHOVEN
Symphony no. 3 n E flat major, Op.55 "Eroica"
- 2nd movement; Marcia funebre
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 413 778-2

PROKOFIEV
Piano sonata n B flat major no.7, Op.83
- 3rd movement; Precipitato
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
PHILIPS 456 948-2

R STRAUSS
4 Letzte Lieder, AV.150
RENEE FLEMING (soprano)
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH (conductor)
RCA VICTOR 09026 68539-2

ADAMS
The Chairman dances - foxtrot
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
EDO DE WAART (conductor)
NONESUCH 7559 79453 2

WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
- Act 3; Liebestod (Mild und leise, wie er lachelt)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Leopold STOKOWSKI - Conductor
RCA 82876 66306 2

ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO
Spam-Boo-Limbo
ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO
ACT 9009 2

STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring
- Part 1 (Adoration of the Earth)
KIROV ORCHESTRA ST PETERSBURG
VALERY GERGIEV (Conductor)
PHILIPS 468 035-2 1

MOZART
Mass in C minor, K.427 "Great"
- Gloria; Qui tollis peccata mundi
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
RAYMOND LEPPARD (Conductor)
EMI CDC 747 385-2

HANDEL
No, di voi non vo' fidarmi - Italian duet no.16 for 2 sopranos and continuo, HWV.189 (setting in G major)
Laura CLAYCOMB - Soprano
Anna Maria PANZARELLA - Soprano
LE CONCERT D'ASTREE
EMMANUELLE HAIM (Harpsichord/Director)
VIRGIN VERITAS 545 524 2

BARBER
Agnus Dei
DUNEDIN CONSORT
BEN PARRY (Director)
LINN RECORDS CKD 117

WEILL
Was bekam des Soldaten Weit?
TERESA STRATAS (Soprano)
RICHARD WOITACH (Piano)
NONESUCH 79019 2

SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.47
- 1st movement; Moderato
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ANDRE PREVIN (Conductor)
RCA 82876 55493-2

PROKOFIEV
Piano concerto no.1 n D flat major, Op.10
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SIMON RATTLE (Conductor)
ANDREI GAVRILOV (Piano)
PHILIPS 456 788/9-2 2




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