In Tune - 19/08/2008

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the music world. Peter Holman talks about this year's Suffolk Villages Festival which starts this week with a performance of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, and jazz singer/pianist Estelle Kokot plays live in the studio ahead of her appearance at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club. Shostakovich Festive Overture Russian National Orchestra Mikhail Pletnev (conductor) DG 4398922 Track 3 5’29 Purcell Destruction’s our delight; The Witches Dance (Dido & Aeneas, Act III Scene I) Collegium Musicum 90 Richard Hickox (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN0586 Tracks 33-34 1’42 Walter Lambe Stella caeli Orlando Consort HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907297 Track 18 5’49 Blow God spake sometime in visions Soloists Winchester Cathedral Choir The Parley of Instruments David Hill (conductor) HYPERION CDD22055 CD 1 Track 1 12’09 Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes London Symphony Orchestra Andre Previn (conductor) EMI CDM7647362 Tracks 13-16 16’18 Beethoven 5 Variations on “Rule Britannia”, WoO 79 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901775 Track 3 4’53 Handel Concerto grosso in G, Op 3 No 3 English Concert Trevor Pinnock (director) ARCHIV 4137272 Tracks 9-11 7’40 LIVE Estelle Kokot Sirens Estelle Kokot (piano & vocals) 3’22 LIVE Estelle Kokot Where is the Rainbow Estelle Kokot (piano & vocals) 4’11 Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite No 2 New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein (conductor) SONY SMK47613 Tracks 21-23 11’51 Saint-Saens Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op 79 Nash Ensemble HYPERION CDA67432 CD 2 Track 12 10’37