In Tune - 04/09/2008

Sean Rafferty talks to cellist Matthew Barley and pianist Thomas Larcher about their part in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time ahead of its late night Proms performance, and they play extracts in the studio. And the Proms focus continues with the LPO's principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski along with mezzo Elena Manistina and baritone Pavel Baransky, who sing extracts from Rimsky-Korsakov's Kashchey the Immortal. Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 E-mail: [email protected] ROSSINI The Journey to Rheims Philharmonia Orchestra Riccardo Muti (conductor) EMI CDC 747118-2 Track 4 7’35 ELGAR In Moonlight Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) Mark Elder (piano) HALLE CD HLL 7500 Track 6 2’45 MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time; Liturgie de cristal Yvonne Loriod (piano), Christoph Poppen (violin) Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (cello), Wolfgang Meyer (clarinet) EMI CDC 754395-2 Track 1 2’24 LIVE MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time; Louange a l’Eternite de Jesus Matthew Barley (cello) Thomas Larcher (piano) 10’20 VIVALDI Concerto for recorder and orchestra RV.439,‘La notte’ Lorenzo Cavasanti (recorder) Europa Galante Fabio Biondi (director) VIRGIN 545424-2 Tracks 11-16 8’02 GLAZUNOV Mazurka BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) BIS CD1308 Track 5 9’50 MORALES Gaude et laetare, Ferrariensis civitas The Brabant Ensemble Stephen Rice (director) HYPERION CDA67694 Track 4 6’08 RAVEL Alborada del gracioso Boston Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink (conductor) PHILIPS 4565692 Track 1 7’46 LIVE RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Kashchey the Immortal; Pit'yo prokhladnoe (scene 2) Elena Manistina (Kashcheyevna) Pavel Baransky (Ivan Korolevich) Tony Legge (piano) 6’31 BRAHMS String Quintet No.2 (4th mvt) The Raphael Ensemble HYPERION CDA44332 Track 7 4’56 KUHLAU Sonatina in C major Op.55 No.1 Jeno Jando (piano) NAXOS 8570710 Track 1-2 4’21 SCHUMANN Abends am Strand Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) HYPERION CDA67676 Track 4 3’25 BERNSTEIN Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Michael Collins (clarinet) London Sinfonietta Simon Rattle (conductor) EMI 2150142 CD 2 Track 21 7’42