Sunday Morning - Four

with Iain Burnside Four It's a common number in music: all those quartets, time signatures, a number of fine fourth symphonies, concertos, and sonatas - all those rousing finales. So today Iain Burnside takes a look at the number four, and how our appreciation of music would be so much diminished if the human race had taken the decision to work in base 3. Producer: Lyndon Jones Playlist: Billy Mayerl/arr Ray Noble: Four Aces Suite Ace of Clubs (2'27) / Ace of Diamonds (2'25) / Ace of Hearts (3'10) / Ace of Spades (3'07) Raie de Costa (piano) / New Mayfair Orchestra / Ray Noble Conifer CDHD205 tr 20-23 total 11'09 ByrdMass for Four Voices (Agnus Dei) Oxford Camerata /Jeremy Summerly Naxos 8550574 t5 total 3'40 TochGeographical Fugue - Fuge aus der Geographie Der Junge Chor Aachen/Fritz ter Wey Thorofon CTH 2044 t6 3'28 Debussy Etude in 4ths, pour les quartes Ju-Ying Song Pro Piano PPR224503 t3 5'20 MessiaenQuartet for the End of Time /Danse de la Fureur, pour les sept trompettes Joanna MacGregor (piano) / Madeleine Mitchell (violin) / David Campbell (clarinet) / Christopher van Kampen (cello) Collins Classics 13932 t6 6'07 BrittenPeter Grimes / Four Sea Interludes (Sunday Morning) RLPO / Libor Pesek Virgin Classics 790 834-2 tr 53'44 Beethoven String Quartet op 18 no4 (1st movement) Brodsky Quartet Vanguard Classics 99212 CD 2 tr 45'27 Richard StraussFour Last Songs (Beim Schlafengehen) Jessye Norman / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch / Kurt Masur Philips 411 052-2 tr 36'06 Shostakovich String Quartet no4 (2nd movement) Brodsky Quartet TELDEC 2564 60867 2 CD 2 tr 76'19 FauréDolly Suite (finale - Le Pas Espagnol) Roy Howat/Emily Kirkpatrick (piano 4 hands) ABC Classics CD2 tr 62'00 MozartDivertimento no 1 for 3 Basset horns KV 439b (Adagio) Colin Lawson / Michael Harris / Timothy Lines basset horns ASV CD GAU 246 tr 33'00 Judith Weir Distance and Enchantment Domus Collins Classics 14532 t6 8'36 BrahmsSymphony No 4 (finale) Berlin Philharmonic/Sir Simon Rattle EMI 2672542 CD3 t4 10'21.