Sunday Morning - 25/10/2009

David Owen Norris sits in for Iain Burnside and explores how music complements and enriches drama, on both theatrical and operatic stages and on small and large screens. Including music by Ibert, Beethoven and Purcell. David's guest is composer Matthew Scott of the National Theatre. Playlist: Vaughan Williams: Overture: The Wasps Halle Orchestra Mark Elder (conductor) HLD 7510 DISC 1 Tr 1 Dur: 9m37s Porter, arr Bregman: It's too darn hot (Kiss me Kate) Ella Fitzgerald, uncredited orchestra Buddy Bregman (conductor) VERVE 8219892 Tr 4 Dur: 3m47s Ibert: Divertissement (The Italian Straw Hat) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Jean Martinon (conductor) DECCA 421 173-2 Trs 1-6 Dur: 14m52s Matthew Scott: The Trial of Lord Lucan Ensemble Matthew Scott (conductor) PRIVATE RECORDING Dur: 1m34s Matthew Scott: Death at the Opera Suite (Mrs Bradley Mysteries) Ensemble Matthew Scott (conductor) BBC WMSF 6021-2 Tr 7 Dur: 5m32s Georges Delerue: Love's not like that (A Little Romance) Ensemble Georges Delerue (conductor) VARESE SARABANDE VSD 5367 Tr 2 Dur: 1m03s Georges Delerue: Main title (A Little Romance) Ensemble Georges Delerue (conductor) VARESE SARABANDE VSD 5367 Tr 1 Dur: 3m11s Malcolm Arnold: Sarabande (Solitaire) - excerpt London Philharmonic Orchestra Malcolm Arnold (conductor) LYRITA SRDC 201 Tr 9 Dur: 2m19s Malcolm Arnold, arr Scott: Sarabande (Solitaire) - music for Separate Tables Simon Harram (soprano saxophone) Matthew Scott (piano) PRIVATE RECORDING Dur: 55s Beethoven: Overture: Egmont Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich David Zinman (conductor) ARTE NOVA 82876 57831 2 DISC 1 Tr 2 Dur: 7m19s Purcell: Frost Scene (King Arthur - Act 3) Cupid ...... Nancy Argenta (soprano) Cold Genius ...... Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass) English Concert Trevor Pinnock (conductor) ARCHIV 4354902 CD1 Tr 20: What power art thou? (2m51s) Tr 21: Thou doting fool (54s) Tr 22: Great Love (1m02s) Tr 23: No part of my dominion (1m11s) Dur:5m57s Patrick Gowers: The Musgrave Ritual (Music for Sherlock Holmes) Wren Orchestra Patrick Gowers (conductor) CDTER 1136 Tr 4 Dur: 2m44s Michel Legrand: Harp Concertino (Summer of '42) Catherine Michel (harp) Orchestre Symphonique Michel Legrand (conductor) Travelling K1020 Tr 2 Dur: 4m39s Brahms: Ballade in D minor, Op 10 No1 (Edward) Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano) COP 2009-05 Tr 19 Dur: 4m15s Berlioz: Pantomime: Andromache's scene (Les Troyens - Act 1, No 6) Cassandra ...... Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Marriner (clarinet) London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Chorus Colin Davis (conductor) LSO 0010 DISC 1 Tr 8 Dur: 8m07s Schubert: Die Hochzeitsbraten Lynne Dawson (soprano) Michael Schade (tenor) Gerald Finley (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano) HYPERION CDJ 33036 Tr 16 Dur: 11m16s CV Stanford: Drake's Drum Peter Dawson (baritone) uncredited orchestra, choir and conductor Pearl GEMMCD 9384 Tr 5 Dur: 2m34s Sullivan: The Tempest (Overture to Act 4) BBC Philharmonic Richard Hickox (conductor), CHANDOS CHAN 9859 Tr 5 Dur: 4m56s Sullivan: The Tempest (Epilogue) BBC Philharmonic Richard Hickox (conductor), CHANDOS CHAN 9859 Tr 5 Dur: 1m39s.