In Tune - 12/06/2009 HK Gruber, Freddy Kempf and Caius Consort

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Composer, conductor and chansonnier HK Gruber joins Sean to talk about his forthcoming concert performance of Die Dreigroschenoper by Kurt Weill at the Barbican in London, with soprano Dorothea Roschmann, mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager and tenor Ian Bostridge. Ahead of Caius Consort's inaugural performance at the 2009 Spitalfields Summer Music Festival, director Geoffrey Webber talks to Sean and directs the Consort from the harpsichord, with additional improvisation from triple-pipes player Barnaby Brown. Plus a performance from celebrated pianist Freddy Kempf and an update from Petroc Trelawny on 2009's BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. 17:02 WEILL Die Dreigroschenoper – The Threepenny Opera (Foxtrot Potpourri) Das Palast Orchester HK Gruber (conductor) RCA 09026 63513-2 Track 12 4:45 17:14 WEILL Die Dreigroschenoper – The Threepenny Opera (The Ballad of Mack the Knife) Max Raabe (Macheath) Ensemble Modern HK Gruber (conductor) RCA 74321 66133-2 CD 1 Track 2 2:43 17:17 VIVALDI Concerto in D minor, RV.129 (Madrigalesco)Aradia Ensemble Kevin Mallon (director) NAXOS 8.570445 Track 15 3:30 17:23 LIVE BEETHOVEN Sonata in C major, Op.53 ‘Waldstein’ (1st movement) Freddy Kempf (piano) 10:57 17:39 LIVE WAGNER, arr. LISZT Isolde’s Liebestod Freddy Kempf (piano) c.5:00 17:46 SUPPE Light Cavalry (overture) Orchestre symphonique de Montreal Charles Dutoit (conductor) DECCA 475 7930 CD1 Track 3 7:00 17:53 WEINER Three Hungarian Folk Dances Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano) HYPERION CDA67735 Tracks 11 – 13 5’13 18:03 SZYMANOWSKI Paganini Caprice No.1 in D major Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cedric Tiberghien (piano) HYPERION CDA 67703 Track 10 2:59 18:10 MOZART Cosi Fan Tutte (come scoglio) Ekaterina Shcherbachenko (soprano) Recorded at Cardiff Singer of the Year 5’37 18:17 HAYDN Die Feuersbrunst: Sinfonia in C major, Hob.29a:4 Haydn Sinfonietta Wien Manfred Huss (director) BIS CD 1818 CD1, track 9 8:14 18:26 LIVE BUXTEHUDE Cantate Domino Emma Walshe (Soprano) Katherine Hambridge (Soprano) Tom Faulkner (Bass) Geoffrey Webber (keyboard) 6:55 18:38 LIVE BARNABY BROWN Improvisations (inspired by living tradition in Sardinia and 16th-17th century Pibroch) Barnaby Brown (triple-pipes) 3:26 18:47 LIVE TUNDER Salve coelestis Pater Tom Faulkner (bass) May Robertson (baroque violin) Geoffrey Webber (keyboard) 5:01 18:53 TANEYEV Oresteia (Act III: Entr’acte: The Temple of Apollo at Delphi) Stanislav Jankovsky (clarinet) Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra Thomas Sanderling (conductor) NAXOS 8.570584 Track 2 5:06 18:59 SCHUBERT Aus “Diego Manzanares”: Ilmerine D458 Elizabeth Watts (soprano) RCA88697329322 Track 10 00:57