Sunday Morning - Canada

Iain Burnside wraps up warm for a musical trek around Canada, discovering performances by well-known Canadian singers, instrumentalists and orchestras, including Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Jon Vickers and Tafelmusik. Schumann, arr. Liszt: Widmung Louis Lortie (piano) Chandos 9793 Tr 10 Duration: 3m33s Handel: Ombre mai fu Maureen Forrester (mezzo-soprano) Vienna Radio Orchestra Brian Priestman (conductor) CBC PSCD2002 Tr 1 Duration: 3m31s Haydn: Symphony No 42 in D (Finale) Tafelmusik Bruno Weil (conductor) Sony SK 48370 Tr 8 Duration: 3m32s Mozart: Sonata in C K330 (Allegro moderato) Glenn Gould (piano) Sony SMK 53474 Tr 1 Duration: 5m18s Britten: Peter Grimes (end of Act 2) Jon Vickers (tenor) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Colin Davis (conductor) CD 2 Trs 9-11 Duratopm: 10m19s Alkan: Vivante/Esprits Follets/Canon (3eme Receuil de chants) Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) Hyperion CDA67569 Trs 4-6 Duration: 6m56s Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26 James Ehnes (violin) Montreal Symphony Orchestra Charles Dutoit (conductor) CBC SMCD5207 Trs 1-3 Duration: 25m27s Purcell: Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light, Z193 (Evening Hymn on a Ground) Nancy Argenta (soprano) Paul Nicholson (organ) Virgin VC7593242 Tr 15 Duration: 5m14s Jones, Palin and Tomlinson: The Lumberjack Song Monty Python BBCCD73 Tr 8 Duration: 3m18s Rameau: Allemande; Courante; Gigue en rondeau I; Gigue en rondeau II; Le rappel des oiseaux (Suite in E minor) Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion CDA67597 Trs 1-5 Duration: 12m11s Ives: Songs my mother taught me Gerald Finley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano) Hyperion CDA67644 Tr 9 Duration: 2m26s Praetorius: Joseph lieber, Joseph mein Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) CDGIM010 Tr 13 Duration: 2m25s Joni Mitchell: River Joni Mitchell (voice and piano) Reprise 7599271992 Tr 8 Duration: 4m01s Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E (Finale) Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand Montreal Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor) ATMA SACD 22512 Tr 4 Duration: 11m49s Wagner: Siegmund heiss ich (Die Walkure) Ben Heppner (tenor) Staatskapelle Dresden Peter Schneider (conductor) DG 4776003 Tr 3 Duration: 3m22s Ellington and Strayhorn: Just a-sittin and a-rockin Oscar Peterson (piano) Barney Kessel (guitar) Ray Brown (bass) Verve 5315582 CD1 Tr 3 Duration: 3m40s.