In Tune - 15/08/2008

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the music world. Geoge Vass, artistic director of the Presiteigne Festival, chats to Petroc about this year's festival which features violinist Tamsin Wahley-Cohen and pianist Helen Reid who perform live in the studio. The Drottningholm Court Theatre from Sweden are making a special appearance in the UK this weekend with Haydn's opera Il mondo della Luna, and director Willian Relton, conductor and artistic manager, Mark Tatlow, and soprano Susanna Stern discuss the production with Petroc. He is also joined by tenor Paul Groves, and soprano Rosemary Joshua ahead of Handel's Belshazzar in which they are performing at the Proms on Saturday. Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 E-mail: [email protected] Handel Belshazzar (Overture) Concentus musicus Vienna Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director) TELDEC 0630 10275 2 CD 1 Tr. 1 4’30 Reich Nagoya marimbas Colin Currie (percussion) EMI 572267 2 Tr. 12 4’48 LIVE McDowall Strange violin are you following me? Tamsin Wahley-Cohen (violin) Helen Reid (piano) 10’10 LIVE Debussy Violin Sonata (1st movement) Tamsin Wahley-Cohen (violin) Helen Reid (piano) 4’30 LIVE Janacek Osud (I want to be in the glow of the sun) (extract) Miss Mila (Magdalena Hajossyova) BRNO Janacek Opera Frantisek Jilek (conductor) SUPRAPHON SU 00452 CD 1 Tr. 7 0’54 Mahler Symphony no.5: 1st mvt (Trauermarsch) Gurzenich Orchestra, Cologne James Conlon (conductor) EMI 574979 2 Tr. 1 12’43 Bach English suite no.2 in A minor (Allemande) Murray Perahia (piano) SONY 8869731050 2 CD 1 Tr. 10 3’39 Janacek Jealousy overture Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 9080 Tr. 5 5’53 Haydn Il mondo della luna (Overture) Drottningholm Court Theatre Mark Tatlow (conductor) PRIVATE RECORDING 3’43 Haydn Il mondo della luna (extract) Drottningholm Court Theatre Mark Tatlow (conductor) PRIVATE RECORDING 3’04 Mozart Nozze di Figaro (Finale) Hakan Hagegard (Count Almaviva) Arleen Auger (Countess) Barbara Bonney (Susanna) Petteri Salomaa (Figaro) Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra Arnold Ostman (conductor) DECCA 470 860 2 CD 3 Tr. 12 4’52 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 Lang Lang (piano) DG 477 5976 CD 2 Tr. 1 9’05 Beethoven Fidelio (Overture) Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Erich Kleiber (conductor) MEDICI ARTS MM027 2 Tr. 1 6’35 Handel Belshazzar (Thou, God most high) Nitocris (Felicity Palmer) Concentus Musicus Vienna Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director) TELDEC 0630 10275 2 CD 1 Tr. 3 4’04 Handel Belshazzar (Let the deep bowl) Robert Tear (Belshazzar) Stockholm Chamber Choir Concertus Musicus Vienna Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director) TELDEC 0630 10275 2 CD 2 Tr. 13 5’45 Handel Partenope (Il ti leve l’Impero dell’Armi) Rosemary Joshua (Partenope) Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn (director) CHANDOS CHAN 07193 CD 1 Tr. 27 6’18 Brahms (arr. Joachim) Hungarian Dances (No. 18) Wo01 Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano) HYPERION CDA 67663 Tr. 18 1’22