Sunday Morning - David Owen Norris - Dream and Fantasy

David Owen Norris explores music of dream and fantasy. Elgar's Dream Children leads up to the two minutes' silence for Remembrance Sunday, which is followed by part of Morning Heroes by Arthur Bliss. Playlist: Warlock: Sleep Benjamin Luxon (baritone) David Willison (piano) CHANDOS CHAN8643 Tr 19 Dur: 2m35s Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66 Artur Rubinstein (piano) PHILIPS 4569552 CD Tr 5 Dur: 5m12s Haydn: String Quartet, Op 50 No 5 (slow mvt) Kodaly Quartet NAXOS 8.553984 Tr 6 Dur: 3m25s Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia John Toll (organ of Adlington Hall) LINN CKD125 Tr 5 Dur: 6m37s Balfe: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls Suzanne Murphy (soprano) Orchestra of Welsh National Opera Julian Smith (conductor) Columbia 474 364-2 Tr 9 Dur: 3m55s Stravinsky: Octet Nash Ensemble Elgar Howarth (conductor) EMI 7243 5 72698 2 Trs 15, 16, 17 Dur: 15m20s Liszt: Liebestraum No 3 in A flat Jorge Bolet (piano) DECCA 410 115 2 Tr 7 Dur 4m47s Sibelius: Var det en drom, Op 37 No 4 (text JJ Wecksell) Soile Isokoski (soprano) Marita Viitasalo (piano) FINLANDIA FACD380 Tr 8 Dur: 2m06s Elgar: Dream Children, Op 43 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Lawrance Collingwood (conductor) EMI 7243 5 65593 2 5 Trs 6 and 7 Dur: 7m31s Bliss: Morning Heroes (excerpts) i) Now, trumpeter, for thy close (Spring Offensive, by Wilfred Owen) ii) Dawn on the Somme, by Robert Nicholls Richard Baker (narrator) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Charles Groves (conductor) BBC Radio Classics 15656 91992 Tr 5 (in at 3m52s) Dur: 8m53s Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K397 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) BMG 82876-55705-2 CD 4, Tr 4 Dur: 5m58s Faure: Apres un reve (arr Isserlis) Steven Isserlis (cello) Pascal Devoyon (piano) HYPERION CDA66235 Tr 8 Dur: 3m23s Schumann: Phantasiestucke, Op 73 Michael Collins (clarinet) Kathryn Stott (piano) EMI 5 66290 2 Trs 1, 2, 3 Dur: 10m14s Knussen: Where the Wild Things Are (Max's Escape) Max ...... Rosemary Hardy (soprano) Tzippy ...... Mary King (mezzo-soprano) Wild Thing with Beard ...... Hugh Hetherington (tenor) Wild Thing with Horns ...... Stephen Richardson (baritone) Rooster Wild Thing ...... Stephen Rhys-Williams (bass-baritone) London Sinfonietta Oliver Knussen (conductor) Unicorn DKPCD 9044 Tr 24 (fade out after first piccolo, Tr 25) Dur: 1m38s Wagner: Traume (Wesendonck-Lieder) Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Gerald Moore (piano) REGIS RRC 4004 CD 4, Tr 10 Dur: 4m41s Walton: Agincourt song (Henry V) (from the film, not the suite) Philharmonia Orchestra William Walton (conductor) EMI CDM 5 65007 2 Tr 12 Dur: 2m15s CPE Bach: Fantasia in A, H278 Lorenzo Ghielmi, fortepiano by Restelli (Milan 1996) after Silbermann 1749 W&W 910 140-2 Tr 4 Dur: 4m32s Faure: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117 Steven Isserlis (cello) Pascal Devoyon (piano) HYPERION CDA66235 Tr 2 (Andante) Dur: 7m16s.