Sunday Morning - Empire

Iain explores music inspired by love of country or kingdom, including works by Elgar, Borodin and Saint-Saens. Playlist: Elgar: Empire March New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/ James Judd Naxos 8557273 Hatton: The Enchantress Dame Clara Butt/ Unnamed pianist Flapper PASTCD7012 Johann Fux: Pour le rossignol/Pour la caille/Pour le coucou - from Ouverture in D Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried Von der Goltz Carus Verlag 83308 Shostakovich: The sun shines over our Motherland Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/ Michail Jurowski Capriccio 10779 Oley Speaks/Kipling: 'On the road to Mandalay' Peter Dawson Flapper PASTCD7007 Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of the Fleet Op. 117 Benjamin Luxon (Performer), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and chorus / Norma del Mar (conducting) EMI CDM5651132 Wallace/Fitzball: 'Scenes that are brightest' from Maritana Joan Sutherland (sop)/ LSO/ Richard Bonynge (conducting) Decca 4250482 Sondheim and Weidman: 'Addison's Trip' from Bounce Richard Kind/ Original Cast/David Caddick (director) Nonesuch 79830 Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 5 Egyptian Stephen Hough (piano)/ City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Sakari Oramo (conductor) Hyperion CDA673312 Pedro de Cristo: Sanctorum Meritis A capella portuguesa/Owen Rees Hyperion CDA66735 Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor - 'Allegro', 'Presto', 'moderato', 'Presto' , 'Allegro con spirito' Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky Chandos CHAN9386 Thomas Arne: Ode for Alfred/Eltruda - The Mask of Alfred Jennifer Smith, David Daniels, Jamie MacDougall/Philharmonic Baroque Orchestra/ Philharmonia chorale/ Nicholas Mcgegan Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 75605513142.