In Tune - 25/02/2009

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, including New Generation Artists the Pavel Haas Quartet performing works by Smetana and Ravel in the studio. Plus tenor Stig Andersen and soprano Soile Isokoski discussing their forthcoming performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder at the Birmingham Symphony Hall and London's Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia. Gurrelieder opens Esa-Pekka Salonen's 18-month expoloration of the art and culture of Vienna in the years around 1900 in a series of concerts entitled 'Vienna 1900-1935: City of Dreams'. 17.04 KREISLER Praeludium and Allegro Tasmin Little (violin) John Lenehan (piano) BIS CD 1744 Track 1 5’37 17.10 STRAUSS Four last songs: Fruhling Soile Isokoski (soprano) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Marek Janowski (conductor) ONDINE ODE 982-2 Track 12 2’59 17.14 SMETANA Quartet for strings no. 1 in E minor (1st movement; Allegro vivo appassionata) Pavel Haas Quartet LIVE 7’41 17.28 HAAS Quartet No 3 (2nd movement) Pavel Haas Quartet LIVE 6’06 17.39 RAVEL Quartet for strings in F major (4th movement) Pavel Haas Quartet LIVE 4’36 17.43 TELEMANN Concerto in B flat major Musica Antiqua Koln Reinard Goebel (director) ARCHIV 413 788-2 Tracks 11-14 11’30 17.54 WAGNER Thannhauser (Act 3 – Wahn, Wahn Uberall Wahn) Bryn Terfel (bass) Berliner Philharmoniker Claudio Abbado (conductor) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4713482 Track 5 18.04 SIBELIUS Finlandia Lahti Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä (director) BIS CD 1557 Track 1 8’28 18.13 SCHUBERT Im Fruhling Soile Isokoski (soprano) Marita Viitasalo (piano) FINLANDIA FIFN9300903 CD 1 Track 3 4’32 17.18 PURCELL Fantasia upon one note Hesperion XX Jordi Savall (conductor) ALIA VOX AVSA 9859 Track 1 3’06 18.23 SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder (Part 1: O when the moonbeams softly glide) Susan Dunn (Tove) Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Riccardo Chailly (conductor) DECCA 4303212 CD 1 Track 3 2’48 18.31 SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder (Part II: Herrgott, weißt du, was du tatest - Lord God do you know what you did) Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Riccardo Chailly (conductor) DECCA 4303212 CD 2 Track 1 4’19 18.40 SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder (Part III: Wild hunt of the summer wind: Melodrama & Final Chorus) Ernst Haefliger (speaker) Simon Joly Chorale Philharmonia Orchestra Robert Craft (conductor) NAXOS 8.557519 CD 2 Tracks 9-10 10’48 18.53 BACH Prelude and fugue from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 7 (BWV.846) in C major Andras Schiff (piano) DECCA 478 0391 CD 1 Tracks 1-2 3’55 52’54 BYRD Miserere Mei, Deus The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood HYPERION CDA67653 Track 5 3’04