In Tune - 22/08/2008

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the music world. Conductor Philippe Herreweghe talks about his forthcoming concert with Collegium Vocale Gent at the Edinburgh Festival, and soprano Gillian Keith sings live in the studio ahead of her recital at the Presteigne Festival. Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 Rossini Sinfonia ‘di Bologna’ Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra Riccardo Chailly (conductor) DECCA 436 832-2 Track 8 5’03 Clementi Toccata in B flat major, Op.11’2 Howard Shelley (piano) HYPERION CDA 67717 CD 2 Track 4 4’00 Bach Cantata BWV.27 “Wer weiss, wie nahe mir neim Ende” Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901969 Track 1 3’55 Bruckner Mass in E minor; Gloria La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Ensemble Musique Oblique Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HM901322 Track 9 5’38 Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4; 3rd movt Rondo Maurizio Pollini (piano) Berlin Philharmonic Claudio Abbado (conductor) DG 477 7244 CD 2 Track 6 9’32 Weber arr. Mahler Oberon Overture Cologne Philharmonic/Gürzenich Orchestra James Conlon (conductor) EMI CDS7547392 CD 1 Track 1 9’02 LIVE Copland 12 Poems of Emily Dickenson; Nature, Heart Gillian Keith (soprano) Helen Yorke (piano) 4’04 LIVE Tom Randle Los Nacimientos; Nace, Planeta Gillian Keith (soprano) Helen Yorke (piano) 5’15 LIVE Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade Gillian Keith (soprano) Helen Yorke (piano) 3’25 Chopin Scherzo No.3, Op.39 Sophie Cashell (piano) UNIVERSAL WHITE LABEL CD 1 Track 1 7’47 Dering Ardens est cor meum The King’s Singers Concordia SIGNUM SIGCD061 Track 5 2’39 Vaughan Williams arr. Jacob English Folk Song Suite Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Neville Marriner (conductor) DECCA 4177782 Tracks 2-4 10’27