In Tune - 17/06/2009 Aldeburgh and St Magnus Festivals

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, including Glenys Hughes, director of the St Magnus Festival. Plus conversation with celebrated pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard after his first weekend as artistic director of the Aldeburgh Music Festival and a performance from rising stars the Brodowski String Quartet. 17:04 ALWYN Festival March (1950) London Symphony Orchestra Richard Hickox (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 8902 Track 10 7'44 17:12 RAVEL Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) WARNER 2564 62160-2 Track 1 6'37 17:21 DOWLAND Say, Love, if ever thou didst find Mark Padmore (tenor) Elizabeth Kenny (lute) HYPERION CDA 67648 Track 1 3'46 17:25 CARTER Two Diversions: II Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) WARNER 2564 62160-2 Track 6 3'16 17:30 BEETHOVEN Piano concerto No.5 in E-flat major Op.73, ‘Emperor’(2nd movement: Adagio un poco moto) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Chamber Orchestra of Europe Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) WARNER 0927 47334-2 CD3, track 5 7'33 17:38 TRADITIONAL arr. LINN ANDREA FUGLSETH Tjovane (The thieves) Trio Medieval ECM 476 6179 Track 4 2'34 17:44 MAXWELL DAVIES Blaze’s Song (The Lighthouse) Christopher Keyte (baritone) Members of the BBC Philharmonic Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor) COLLINS 14152 Track 3 3'32 17:50 ROUSSEL Gigue (Suite in F (1926)) Royal Scottish National Orchestra Stephane Deneve (conductor) NAXOS 8.570529 Track 7 4'34 17:55 BACH (Transcribed by A Siloti) Flute Sonata in E flat major (Siciliano) Alessio Bax (piano) SIGNUM SIGCD156 Track 9 2’18 18:03 PURCELL Blow up the trumpet in Sion, Z.10 Oxford Camerata Laurence Cummings (organ) Jeremy Summerly (director) NAXOS 8.556839 Track 10 6'15 18:10 CHOPIN Mazurka in A minor Op.17 No.4 Kathryn Stott (piano) CHANDOS CHAN 10493 Track 23 5'01 18:20 LIVE MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No.6 in F minor, Op.80 (1st Movement: Allegro vivace assai) Brodowski Quartet 7'15 18:33 LIVE SCHULHOFF String Quartet No.1 (3rd movement: Allegro giocoso alla slovacca) Brodowski Quartet 2'55 18:37 ALFVEN Swedish Rhapsody No.1, Op.19 ‘Midsummer Vigil’ Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Paavo Berglund (conductor) EMI268161-2 CD2, track 13 12'31 18:51 JOAN CEREROLS Serafin que con dulce harmonia The Harp Consort Andrew Lawrence-King (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMX2907293 Track 13 7'51