Sunday Morning
Festivals
Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and looks at music festivals and their musicians, focusing on some of the composers and performers who have - for different reasons - often had a strong association with a particular festival. With George Vass, director of the Presteigne Festival, and music from Britten, Wagner, Brahms, Tippett, Bernstein and Mendelssohn. Purcell: Royal and Ceremonial Odes - Here the Deities approve James Bowman / The King’s Consort / Robert King Hyperion CDA66314 Wagner: Overture to Act 1 of Meistersinger The Philadelphia Orchestra / Christian Thieleman (cond) DG 453 485 2 Mozart: Violin Sonata K304 Yuuko Shiokawa – violin / Andras Schiff – fortepiano Decca 436 547 2 Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti Scene V – The Gymnasium Julian Patrick (Sam) / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein (conductor) Sony Classical SMK 60969 Bach: St Matthew Passion ‘Behold my saviour now is taken’ Leith Hill Musical Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Ralph Vaughan Williams (cond) Soprano - Pauline Brockless Mezzo – Nancy Evans Evangelist – Eric Greene Piano – Eric Gritton Pearl Gems 0079 Thomas Linley: Let God Arise (Overture) The Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman (conductor) Hyperion – Helios CDH55302 Adrian Thomas: Red Kite Flying Gillian Keith (soprano) / Simon Lepper (piano) Metronome MET CD 1065 David Matthews: From Sea and Sky (overture) op59 Orchestra Nova / George Vass (conductor) Dutton CDLX 7189 Ravel String Quartet (1st movement) Belcea Quartet EMI 574 020 Erkki Sven Tuur: Illusion Talinn Chamber Orchestra Tonu Kaljuste (conductor) ECM New Series 1590 449 459-2 Britten: Spring Symphony Catherine Robbin – contralto / Philharmonia Orchestra / Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 453 433 2 Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto Manfred Clement – oboe / Staatskapelle Dresden / Rudolf Kempe (cond) EMI CMS7643422 Menotti: 24’00Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Allegro Vivace) Jennifer Koh (violin) / Spoleto Festival Orchestra / Richard Hickox (conductor) CHANDOS Chan 9979 Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor K478 (Rondo / finale) Kenneth Sillito (violin) / Cecil Aronowitz (viola) / Kenneth Heath (cello) Benjamin Britten (piano) BBCB 8005 2