In Tune - 01/05/2009

Presented by Sean Rafferty. Choreographer Alastair Marriott joins Sean in the studio to talk about the Royal Ballet's upcoming performances of Les Sylphides/Sensorium and The Firebird. Plus, Conductor Thomas Kemp and mezzo soprano Anna Grevelius talk to Sean about their performances at Brighton Festival. They will be performing, with Chamber Domaine, Sciarrino's orchestration of Rossini's Giovanna D'Arco alongside of Anish Kapoor's specially commissioned installation The Dismemberment of Jeanne D'Arc. Anna Grevelius will be performing in the studio. E-mail: [email protected] With a selection of music and guests from the music world. Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 1702 TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise from “Cherevichki”(The Tsarina’s Slippers) The USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor) OLYMPIA OCD136 Tr 4 6’08 1709 SCHUBERT 3 Klavierstücke D.946 (No.1 in E flat minor) Imogen Cooper (piano) AVIE AV2156 CD1 Tk6 7’25 17’17 DEBUSSY (arr Colin Matthews) Le vent dans le plaine (Preludes: BookI no.3) Hallé Mark Elder (director) CDHLL 7513 Tk14 2:50 1725 DEBUSSY Des pas sur la neige: triste et lent (Preludes Book 1 no.6) Steven Osborne (piano) HYPERION CDA67530 Tk6 4’12 1735 TCHAIKOVSKY Danse russe (Act III) “Cherevichki”(The Tsarina’s Slippers) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine Theodore Kuchar (conductor) NAXOS 8.554845 Tk7 3:43 1740 HANDEL / HALVORSEN Passacaglia for Violin and Viola Heinrich Koll (viola) Alexandra Koll (violin) NAXOS 8.557606 Tk 8 7:36 1748 SCHEIDT Battle Suite (Canzon “in imitation of an English Bergamask”) Philip Jones Brass Ensemble DECCA 289 467 746-2 Tr10 4’35 1754 MENDELSSOHN Glosse Anna Grevelius (mezzo soprano) Eugene Asti (piano) WHITE LABEL (HYPERION) Tr5 4’31 1803 SCHUBERT Overture in C Major, D591 ‘In the Italian Style’ SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) DECCA 436 598 2 Tk 1 7’27 1811 POULENC Ballabile from the cello sonata Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) 3’16 1815 HENRY VIII Consort XV1 Lynda Sayce (lute) CCL CDG1148 Tk11 2’38 19’36 LIVE ROSSINI (Orch Sciarrino) Extract from Giovanna D’Arco Anna Grevelius (Mezzo soprano) Stephan de Pledge(Piano) 6’49 1833 LIVE ROSSINI (Orch. Sciarrino) Extract from Giovanna D’Arco Anna Grevelius (Mezzo soprano) Stephan de Pledge(Piano) 1’42 1839 ELGAR Wand of Youth, Music to a Child’s Play (Second suite, op1b) RLPO Vernon Handley (conductor) EMI Trs14-17 10’08 1849 BACH Sinfonia in D major, cantata n29, bwv 29 Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion CDA 60379 Tr1 4’01 1854 CD MACMILLAN A New Song The Sixteen Harry Christophers (director) CORO COR16071 Tk9 5:13