In Tune - 23/11/2009 Jeffrey Skidmore, Ibuki Piano Trio

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the music world. Conductor Jeffrey Skidmore drops in to the studio to talk about the highlight of Ex Cathedra's 40th anniversary season - a performance of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. Plus the young and dynamic Ibuki Piano Trio performing music by Ravel and Haydn. 17:02 WALDTEUFEL L'Estudiantina - waltz, Op.191 Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra Willi Boskovsky (conductor) EMI 585066 2 Track 23 6:51 17:10 SCHUBERT Der musensohn, D.764 Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano) Paul Badura-Skoda (fortepiano) ASTREE E 7783 Track 6 2:04 17:14 LIVE RAVEL Trio: 1st movement Ibuki Piano Trio 9:10 17:31 LIVE HAYDN Trio in E flat Hob XV:30 (3rd movement: Presto) Ibuki Piano Trio 2'56 17:35 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' London Symphony Orchestra Richard Hickox (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 9593 Track 6 10:31 17:46 GRIEG With a primrose, Op.26 no.4 Elisabeth Söderstrom (soprano) Martin Isepp (piano) BBC LEGENDS BBCL4132 2 Track 3 1:49 17:53 STRAUSS Four Last Songs: Fruhling Elisabeth Söderstrom (soprano) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra RCO LIVE BOX SET Track 3:07 17:56 MUFFAT Sonata no.1 in D major (minuet) Armonico Tributo Roy Goodman and Peter Holman (directors) HELIOS CDH55191 Track 4 1:37 18:03 BIZET/HOROWITZ Carmen Variations Arcady Volodos (piano) SONY SK 62691 Track 1 3:34 18:07 CHABRIER Lied Felicity Lott (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano) HYPERION CDA 66937 Track 17 2:36 18:10 BACH Partita in A minor, orig. B minor BWV.1002 (Corrente) Nigel North (lute) LINN CKD 300 CD 1,track 6 5:08 18:16 ELGAR Dream of Gerontius (Praise to the holiest) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra Huddersfield Choral Society Vernon Handley (conductor) EMI CDB 565019 2 CD 2, track 10 6:34 18:30 ELGAR Dream of Gerontius (Softly and gently - excerpt) Margaret Balfour (mezzo-soprano) Royal Albert Hall Orchestra conducted by the composer EMI CDS 754560 2 CD 3, track 8 2:32 18:37 MENDELSSOHN Elijah (For he shall give his angels) Ex Cathedra Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor) Andrew Fletcher (organ) ORCHID CLASSICS ORC 100008 Track 11 2:35 18:41 HAYDN String Quartet in B flat, Op.50 no.1 (Finale: Vivace) Doric String Quartet WIGMORE LIVE WHL 0032 Track 13 4:52 18:48 ROUSSEL Symphony no.1 (1st movement 'Foret d'hiver') Royal Scottish National Orchestra Stephane Deneve (conductor) NAXOS 8 570323 Track 1 5:27 18:54 KAPSBERGER Libro Primo (Toccata) La Nuova Musica David Bates (director) SOMMCD083 Track 10 2:16 18:56 MONTEVERDI Perfidissimo Volto La Nuova Musica David Bates (director) SOMMCD083 Track 11 2:16.