Breakfast - 08/08/2008

Music for breakfast-time listening with Martin Handley A musical mix for breakfast-time including the Gypsy Song from Carmen and a stunning instrumental work by Bach that sounds like twentieth century minimalism. And a Free Thought at 8.30. This playlist may change and will be updated after the programme. ROSSINI arr. SEDLAK Overture “L’Italiana in Algiera” Netherlands Wind Ensemble PHILIPS 442 654 Tr 8 Henry PURCELL Suite in C Major Davitt Moroney (player virginals) VIRGIN VC5451662 Tr 17-20 Gerald FINZI God is gone up Westminster Abbey Choir, Robert Quinney (organ) James O’Donnell, conductor HYPERION CDA 67680 Tr 12 Antonin REICHA Introduction and Rondo for horn and orchestra Karl-Otto Hartmann (horn) Prague Chamber Orchestra Milan Lajcik conductor ORFEO C 170 021 Tr 5 PROKOFIEV Toccata, Op.11 Cyprien Katsaris (piano) WARNER CLASSICS 49637 CD4 Tr 24 BIZET Gypsy Song, Carmen Act I Sc.II Tatiana Troyanos (soprano) London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Georg Solti, conductor DECCA 421 300 2 Tr 4 NIELSEN An imaginary journey to the Faeroe Islands Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor SONY SK 5276 Tr 3 J.S.BACH Canons BWV.1072-1078, 1086 Gottfried von der Goltz (violin) Karl Kaiser (flute) Ekkehard Weber (viola da gamba) Michael Behringer (harpsichord) HANSSLER CD.92.133 Tr 17-24 SCHUBERT Ballet Music Die Zauberharfe: No.9 Andantino Vienna Philharmonic Riccardo Muti, conductor EMI 5 74808 CD1 Tr 4 SZYMANOWSKI orch. Fittelberg Etude in B flat minor, Op. 4, No. 3 Polish State Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) Karol Stryja, conductor NAXOS 8.553686 Tr 4 FREE THOUGHT Gwilym Simcock on getting children into music SIMCOCK Voices Gwilym Simcock (piano) BASHO Music SRCD 224-2 Tr 6 BRAHMS 4 Gesänge Op.17 Delyth Wynne (harp), Anthony Halstead, Christian Rutherford (horns) Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor PHILIPS 432 152 2 Tr 19-22 BERLIOZ Rakoczy March London Symphony Orchestra Pierre Monteux, conductor BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4112 Tr 7