Sunday Morning - 02/12/2007

Iain wraps up warm with works on a theme of 'Winter'. Liszt: Chasse-neige Evgeny Kissin (piano) RCA 09026682622 Vivaldi: Winter (Four Seasons) Christian Lindberg (trombone) New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra Okkko Kamu (conductor) BIS CD348BIS Judith Bingham: The Snows Descend Fine Arts Brass NAXOS 8.570346 Robert Frost: 'Stopping by Woods on a snowy Evening' Poem British Library NSACD13 Debussy: Des pas sur la neige Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) BBC BBCL40432 Purcell: Frost Scene (King Arthur) ERATO 2292459192 Glazunov: Winter (Seasons) Minnesota Orchestra Edo de Waart (conductor) Telarc CD80347 Britten: Winter Words (At Day Close in November) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) Trad: Ding dong merrily on high EMI CDP7954632 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter daydreams) Russian National Orchestra Michael Pletnev (conductor) DG 4534452 Henze: Sir Andrew Aguecheek; Royal Winter Music Franz Halasz (guitar) Naxos 8557344 Poulenc: Un soir de neige Joyful Company of Singers Peter Broadbent (director) ASV CD CDDCA1067 Brett Dean: If in beginning; Winter Songs Daniel Norman (tenor) Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet Hermann Baumer (director) BIS-CD-1332 Ysaÿe: Chant d'hiver, Op 15 Albrecht Breuninger (violin) North West German Philharmonic Orchestra Welisar Gentscheff (conductor) CPO 7770512.