Sunday Morning - 12/10/2008

Iain Burnside looks at music and sport and considers how they compare and contrast. With Middlesex and England cricketer Ed Smith, discussing why Wagner and Cannonball Adderley help him succeed in the heat of sporting battle. Iain Burnside - Sport/Performance/Competition - 12.10.08 Charles Coote Junior: I won her heart at billiards Ian and Jennifer Partridge JUSCD001 Charles Ives: Yale-Princeton Football Game Orchestra of New England/James Sinclair Koch 370252 Elgar: Chanson de Matin Nigel Kennedy/ Peter Pettinger Chandos CHAN8380 Grainger: Tribute to Foster Monteverdi Choir / The English Country Gardiner Orchestra/ Sir John Eliot Gardiner Philips 4466572 Dr John Bull; The King’s Hunt Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) EMI CDC7543192 Bernstein: "Pass the Football" from Wonderful Town Brent Barrett/London Voices/Simon Rattle EMI CDC5567532 Honegger: Rugby ‘Mouvement symphonique’ No.2 for orch ORTF National Orchestra/Jean Martinon (conductor) EMI CDM7639442 Trad: Swing Low Sweet Chariot Gloriae Dei Cantores/ Richard K Pugsley (bass)/ Gloriae Dei Handbell Choir/ Elizabeth Petterson (conductor) Gloriae dei Cantores GDCD010 Herbert Preston-Thomas: The Cricketer’s Carol Ian and Jennifer Partridge JUSCD001 Wagner: Tannhauser – The Pilgrim’s Chorus Kingsway Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (chorus master John Alldis / Camarata Decca 4211762 Joe Zawinul: Walk Tall Cannonball Adderley (Saxophone), Nat Adderley (Cornet), Joe Zawinul (piano), Victor Gaskin (Bass), Roy McCurdy (Percussion) Trema 710381 Bach: Double Violin Concerto – Largo ma non tanto 2nd movement Jaap Schroder and Christopher Hirons (violins)/ The Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood Oiseau Lyre 4215002 Scriabin: Etudes op 8 nos 8 and 10 Langlang (piano) Telarc SACD 60582 Debussy: Jeux New Philharmonic Orchestra/ Pierre Boulez (director) CBS CD42546 Maurizio Kagel: ‘Match’ Siegfried Palm/ Klaus Storck (cello)/ Christoph Caskel (percussion) RCA 74321736492 Thalberg: Fantasia on Rossini's Moses Francesco Nicolosi (piano) Naxos 8555501