Sunday Morning - Gardens

Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and presents music about the therapeutic qualities of gardens. She is joined by David Wheeler, editor of Hortus magazine, who is convinced his garden helped him in his battle with cancer. Music includes Britten, Falla and Tchaikovsky. Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Tutti fior (Flower Duet) Rome Opera Orchestra/Erich Leinsdorf GD84145 CD 2 Track 8 Hummel - Trumpet Concerto (finale) Wynton Marsalis / English Chamber Orchestra / Raymond Leppard Sony Classical SK57497 tr 11 Delius: In a Summer Garden Hallé Orchestra/Vernon Handley Classics for Pleasure - 5753152 tr 7 Little Shop of Horrors: Grow For Me Conducted by Henry Aronson DRG 12998 tr 4 Rameau: La Guirlande (Air - Choeur - Menuets) (orch - choir - orch) Choeur des Arts Florissants/Cappella Coloniensis des WDR/William Christie ERATO 8573 85774 2 CD 1 tr 6,7,8 Debussy: Jardins sous la pluie Mark Swartzentruber (piano) Solo records SLR5 tr 8 Michael Gandolfi: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (excerpt - The Snail and the Poetics of Going Slow) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra / Robert Spano Telarc 80696 tr 3 Diego Ortiz: Recercada Segundo del tenore Pamela Thorby recorder/Andrew Lawrence King harp Linn CKD 291 tr 1 Mozart: Marriage of Figaro (Act IV Sc 10) Patrizia Ciofi (Susanna)/Concerto Köln/René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMC 901818.30 CD3 tr 17 R Strauss: Four Last Songs (September) Felicity Lott (sop)/SNO/Neeme Järvi Chandos CHAN 8518 tr 8 De Falla: Nights in the Garden of Spain Tzimon Barto (piano)/ASMF/Neville Marriner EMI 572 097 2 tr 9 Handel: Organ Concerto no Opus Number in A Major Simon Preston / English Concert / Trevor Pinnock DG Archiv 413 465 2 CD 2 Track 12 Thomas ArneJenny Philip Langridge (tenor)/Tristan Gurney (violin)/Malcolm Layfield (violin)/Jennifer Langridge (cello)/ David Owen Norris (piano) Signum Classics -SIGCD 101tr 18 Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers London Symphony Orchestra / Charles Mackerras Telarc CD80140 tr 13 Britten: The Evening Primrose From Five Flower Songs The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Collins Classics 12862 tr 11 Britten: To Daffodils From Five Flower Songs The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Collins Classics 12862 tr 8 Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Kent Nagano Harmonia Mundi HMC801802 tr 1 Autumn Leaves Oscar Peterson Johnney Mercer/Prevert/Cosma LC259 tr 10 Alec Roth The Tarrying Garden from Chinese Gardens Mark Padmore (tenor)/Morgan Szymanski (guitar) Signum Classics SIGCD 124 tr 15 Grainger; Country Gardens Eastman Pops Orchestra/Frederick Fennell Decca 470126-2 tr 1 The Briar and the Rose (trad) Nathan Gunn (bar) Sony Classical 88697-06510 tr 2 Sumer is icumen in (trad) The Dufay Collective Chandos Chan 9396 tr 20.