In Tune - 03/04/2009 Riccardo Chailly and Roberto Prosseda

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guest from the arts world. Italian-born conductor Riccardo Chailly speaks to Sean ahead of his performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in the last of the Orchestra's three-concert residency at London's Barbican Centre. Pianist and Mendelssohn expert Roberto Prosseda talks about his recording with Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra of a reconstructed version of Mendelssohn's Third Piano Concerto. He is also joined by composer/conductor Marcello Bufalini, who reconstructed the work. 17:02 PIAZZOLLA Verano porteño (Summer) Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Eduardo Marturet (conductor) ANCALAGON 13 Track 16 5’52 17:09 MENDELSSOHN Andante in D Roberto Prosseda (piano) DECCA 476 3038 Track 11 4’55 17:15 BACH St Matthew Passion (O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden) Thomanerchor Leipzig Gewandhaus Georg Christophe Biller (conductor) Rondeau Production 1’12 17:19 BACH St Matthew Passion (Mache dich, mein Herze, rein) Thomas Quasthoff (bass) Bach Collegium Stuttgart Helmut Rilling (conductor) HANSSLER CD 92 074 CD 3 Track 11 6’08 17:31 BRAHMS Violin concerto (3rd mvt) Vadim Repin (violin) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Riccardo Chailly (conductor) DECCA 4777470 Track 3 7’49 17:41 HAYDN Concerto ‘a due Lire’ no.2 in G, Hob. VIIh no.2 Haydn Sinfonietta Wien Manfred Huss (conductor) BIS CD 179698 CD 4 Track 1-3 12’05 18:03 STRAVINSKY Suite No.2 for Small Orchestra Ensemble Intercontemporain Pierre Boulez (conductor) SONY SMK 45843 Tracks 24-27 5’57 18:09 STENHAMMAR Three a capella songs Danish National Radio Choir Stefan Parkman (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 9464 Tracks 23-25 5’20 18:16 LIVE MENDELSSOHN Song without words in F major (Posth. Publ.) Roberto Prosseda (piano) 2’10 18:23 MENDELSSOHN (reconstr. Bufalini) Piano Concerto No.3 (Finale) Roberto Prosseda (piano) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Harry Bickett BBC Live Recording 4’00 18:33 LIVE MENDELSSOHN Songs without words Op.67 no.1 in E flat; no.3 in B flat Roberto Prosseda (piano) 4’42 18:39 ALBINONI Sonata no.6 in G minor (Op.2 no.11) Ensemble 415 Chiara Banchini (director) ZIG ZAG ZZT 090202 Track 5-8 8’35 18:48 BACH Fantasia & Fugue in G minor BWV 542 Simon Preston (organ) DETSCHE GRAMMOPHON 435 3812 Tracks 4-5 10’47