Sunday Morning - 18/11/2007

As St Cecilia's Day appraoches, Iain looks at music about music. Boyce: Symphony, Op 2 No 5; Ode to St Cecilia (See fam'd Apollo) Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood (conductor) Oiseau Lyre 4367612 Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) DG4534332 Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music London Symphony Orchestra Adrian Boult (conductor) EMI CDC7472182 Janacek: Kreutzer Sonata Quartet Medici Quartet Nimbus NI5113 Schubert, arr. Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade Yevgeny Kissin (piano) DG 4350282 Strauss: Capriccio, Op 85 (Prelude) Michael Cookson (viola) Moray Welsh (cello) Medici String Quartet Nimbus NI 5076 Bach: Unaccompanied Bach Sonatas and Partitas Jascha Heifetz (violin) RCA GD87708 Glenn Gould: So you want to write a fugue? Claron McFadden (soprano) Marie-Therese Keller (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor) Harry van der Kamp (bass) String Quartet Sony Classical SK47184 Strauss/Godowsky: Wine Women and Song Shura Cherkassky (piano) Nimbus NI 5043 Finzi: Ceremonial Ode For St Cecilia James Gilchrist (tenor) Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra David Hill (conductor) Naxos 8.557863 Langgaard: Music of the spheres Gitta-Maria Sjoberg (soprano) Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor) Chandos chan9517 Handel: But bright Cecilia...As from the pow'r of sacred lays (An Ode for St Cecilia's Day) Carolyn Samson (soprano) King's Consort Robert King (director) Hyperion CDA677463.