Sunday Morning - 12/07/2009

Iain Burnside compares and contrasts music written for exams and prizes, using appropriate examples from Bach, Barber, Berlioz, Britten and others. Iain's guest is Prof Colin Lawson, director of the Royal College of Music, London. Playlist: Schubert: Symphony no 1 in D, D82 (finale) Berlin Staatskapelle Otmar Suitner (conductor) Denon 33C37-7905, Tr 8 Dur: 6m9s Rachmaninov: Aleko Aleko ...... Vassily Gerello (baritone) Moscow Chamber Orchestra Constantine Orbelian (conductor) Delos DE 3269, Tr 10 Dur: 5m20s Haydn: Piano Sonata No 44 in E flat, H XVI 49 (1st mvt) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) EMI 556 756-2, Tr 13 Dur: 6m25s John McLachlan: Here be Dragons (excerpt) David Adams (organ) CMC CD04, Tr 2 Dur: 5m50s James MacMillan: The Gallant Weaver Laudibus Mike Brewer (conductor) Delphian DCD 34060, Tr 11 Dur: 5m30s Mozart: (Bassett) Clarinet Concerto, K622 (finale) Colin Lawson (clarinet) Hanover Band Roy Goodman (conductor) Nimbus N 5228, Tr 7 Dur: 8m40s Cherubini: Overture (Les abencerages) Academy of St Martin in the Fields Neville Marriner (conductor) EMI CDC 754 438-2, Tr 7 Dur: 6m10s Berlioz: The Death of Sardanapale (fragment) Daniel Galvez Vallejo (tenor) National Orchestra of Lille Regional Choir of the Pas de Calais Jean-Claude Casadesus (conductor) HMC 901542, Tr 3 Dur: 5m35s Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie Franklin Cohen (clarinet) Cleveland Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor) DG 439 896-2, Tr 4 Dur: 8m30s Britten: Sinfonietta, Op 1 Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend (conductor) Hyperion CDA 66845, Trs 18-20 Dur: 13m55s Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung) Cleveland Orchestra George Szell (conductor) Sony SBK 48175, Tr 5 Dur: 11m50s Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1 Andrei Gavrilov (piano) London Symphony Orchestra Simon Rattle (conductor) EMI 586 881-2, Trs 4-6 Dur: 13m55s.