In Tune - In Tune

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, including Hong Xu, laureate of Canada's Honens International Piano Competition, talking about the opportunity he received to move from the Chinese city of Wuhan to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Plus the Lendvai String Trio perform Haydn and Beethoven in the studio, and music to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. 17:03 HANDEL Tamerlano (Ciel e terra armi di sdegno) Rolando Villazon (tenor) Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh (conductor) DG 477 8056 Track 1 03’16 17:07 CHOPIN Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor Angela Hewitt (piano) HYPERION CDA 67371/2 CD2 Track 3 05’17 17:16 LIVE MICHAEL HAYDN Divertimento in C major (Allegro moderato & Adagio) Lendvai String Trio 9’56 17:29 LIVE BEETHOVEN String Trio Op. 3 in E flat major (Allegro con brio) Lendvai String Trio 8’52 17:39 OFFENBACH Orpheus in the Underworld (Overture) Vienna Philharmonic Lorin Maazel (conductor) DG 419 4092 Track10 9’48 17:50 TYE Omnes gentes, plaudite minibus Westminster Abbey Choir James O’Donnell (conductor) HYPERION CDA 67704 Track 1 4’15 17:54 TESSIER Chansons turcquesques Le Poeme Harmonique Vincent Dumestre (conductor) ALPHA 100 Track 1 4’08 18.03 MASSENET Scenes Pittoresques (Fete Bohème) City of Birmingham SO Louis Fremaux (conductor) EMI 5758712 Track 11 4’51 18:09 VIVALDI Sinfonia in G Major RV146 Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Marcon (director) ARCHIV 474 5092 Tracks 34-36 7’16 18:16 LIVE STRAVINKSY Petroushka (excerpt) Hong Xu (piano) 2’36 18:24 LIVE DEBUSSY 2 Preludes (Voiles & Feux d’aritifice) Hong Xu (piano) 9’20 18:39 LIVE MOZART Piano Sonata in D Major K576 (1st movement) Hong Xu (piano) 3’41 18:44 COPLAND Lincoln Portrait Henry Fonda (speaker) London Symphony Orchestra Aaron Copland (conductor) SONY SM3K 46559 CD3 Tracks 15-17 15’04