In Tune - Sean Rafferty

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With composer George Crumb and conductor Diego Mason, ahead of tonight's Prom with the Nash Ensemble to celebrate the composer's 80th birthday and the Gewhandaus Orchestra's conductor Riccardo Chailly in Leipzig as they prepare to perform at the Proms next week. 17:02 VIVALDI The Chase from The Nightmare Concerto RV 439 Red Priest Piers Adams [recorder] DORIAN DOR 90305 Track 6 2’21 17:05 WOLF (orch Wolf) Harfenspieler-Lieder (We sich der Einsamkeit ergibt) Matthias Goerne [baritone] Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Riccardo Chailly [conductor] DECCA 458 189-2 Track 1 4’23 17:10 TRADITIONAL (arr George Crumb) American Songbook IV (Shenandoah from The Winds of Destiny) Barbara Ann Martin [soprano] Orchestra 2001 James Freeman [conductor] BRIDGE 9275A/B CD 2 Track 9 3’53 17:21 GEORGE CRUMB Proterzoic from Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) Claire Chase [flute] Kivie Cahn-Lipman [cello] Jacob Greenberg [piano] BRIDGE 9261 Track 16 2’09 17:28 BERIO Folksongs (Black is the colour, Azerbaijan Love Song) Linda Hirst [mezzo soprano] London Sinfonietta Diego Masson [conductor] VIRGIN VC790704-2 Tracks 1,2 & 11 5’11 17:34 MOZART Piano Concerto NO 23 in A major K488 (final movement) Mitsuko Uchida [piano and director] The Cleveland Orchestra DECCA 478 1524 Track 6 8’07 17:44 HANDEL Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Eternal Source of Light Devine & The day that gave great Anna birth) Susan Gritton [soprano] Robin Blaze [countertenor] Michael George [bass] Choir of King’s College, Cambridge The Academy of Ancient Music Stephen Cleobury EMI 7243 5 57140 2 2 Tracks 16 and 17 5’52 17:50 WALTON Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Academy of St Martin in the Fields Sir Neville Marriner CHANDOS 8870 Tracks 1-2 8’33 18:03 LIEGETI Romanian Concerto (Final mvt – Molto vivace) Berlin Philharmonic Jonathan Nott TELDEC 8573 88261-2 Track 9 4’56 18:08 RIMSKY KORSAKOV Flight of the Bumble Bee Christian Lindberg [trombones] Roland Pöntinen [piano] BIS Track 1 1’07 18.10 Sound of the Bumwa, the Assamese woodworm; Ceremonial chant from Fiji (Yangonna, recorded Fiji, 1957) It’s a Long way to Tipperary (recorded in Newcastle, 1979) From the British Library Sound Archive 18:15 GRAINGER Brigg Fair (Folk song from Lincolnshire) English Country Gardniner Orchestra John Eliot Gardiner PHILIPS 446 657-2 Track 2 3’03 18:19 MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Ricardo Chailly DECCA 475 6939 Track 1 11’55 18:37 MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 3 in E minor (Final movement) Roberto Prosseda [piano] Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Ricardo Chailly DECCA 478 1525 Track 8 4’39 18:47 BRAHMS Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major Op 77 Vadim Repin [violin] Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Ricardo Chailly DG 477 7470 Track 3 7’47 18:56’15 DAVE BRUBECK History of a Boy Scout Dave Brubeck Quartet PHILIPS BBE 12188 3’23