Sunday Morning - Celebrations

While Christmas festivities are still in full swing, Iain can't offer calling birds, French hens or turtle doves - but does gather together a group of distinguished guests, including Nicholas Hytner and Douglas Boyd. They discuss some of their musical discoveries of the year and suggest a few musical frivolities to help maintain the festive cheer. Including: Handel: Messiah – The Hallelujah Chorus Arnold Schoenberg Choir/ Concentus Musicus Wien/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 82876640702 Music Kurt Weill, Text Bert Brecht - Mack the Knife Bertolt Brecht/ Theo Mackeben & his Orchestra Telefunken 0927426632 Joy Webb arr Bosanko: Share My Yoke James Watson/ Black Dyke Band Doyen DOYCD060 Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite Op 60 – Troika’s Song Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/ Andre Previn (conducting) Telarc CD8143 Weissenberg: ‘Reminiscence d’un Charleston’ and ‘Reflets d’un blues’ from Sonate en etat de jazz Marc Andre Hamlin Hyperion CDA67656 Delius: ‘I stand as on some mighty eagle’s beak’ from Songs of Farewell Waynflete Singers/ Southern Voices/ Members of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/ Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/ Richard Hickox Chandos CHAN9214 Beethoven: 1st movement from the 4th Symphony Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (conducting) Avie AV2169 Mozart: Die Zauberflote from the Finale ‘Papagena! Papagena! Papagena! Weibchen! Taubchen! Hanno Muller –Brachmann/Arnold Schoenberg Choir/ Mahler Chamber Orchestra/ Claudio Abbado DG 4775789 Rodgers/Hammerstein: My Favourite Things Betty Carter (vocals)/ Harold Mabern (pno)/Bob Cranshaw (Bass)/ Roy McCurdy (drums)/ Blue Note CDP8290952 Schumann: ‘Papillons’ ‘Lettres dansantes’ Chiarina’ ‘Chopin’ from Carnival Simon Barere rec live in Carnegie Hall APR CDAPR7009 Stanford: 1st movement from Symphony no. 3 in F minor ‘Irish Symphony’ Ulster Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conducting) Chandos CHAN 9279-82 Albrechtsberger: Finale from Concerto for Jews-Harp, Mandora and Orchestra in F major Fritz Mayr (Jew's Harp), Dieter Kirsch (Mandore), Munich Chamber Orchestra /Hans Stadlmair (conducting) Orfeo C035821 Dowland: Now O now I needs must part Mark Padmore (tenor)/ Elizabeth Kenny (lute) Hyperion CDA6748 Trad: Annie Laurie E Belaev/Soviet Army Chorus/Vladimir Alexandrov EMI CDC7478332 De Dannan: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Galway De Dannan Sugar Hill SH-CD 1130