Sunday Morning - Iain Burnside - Celebrating Summer

To celebrate the long summer days, Iain slips into his kaftan and tests out music past and present from the Age of Aquarius including Tippett's Dances from The Midsummer Marriage and Sorabji's Transcendental Studies. PLAYLIST Hovhaness: Fanfare for the New Atlantis 1975 RSNO/Stewart Robertson Naxos 8.559336 Scriabin: Deux Danses Vladimir Sofronitsky Philips 456 970 2 Sibelius: Tapiola (literally, ‘Where the Forest God Dwells’, 1926) LSO/Colin Davis (conducting) RCA 09026687702 Terry Riley: Chanting the Light of Foresight Rova Saxophone Quartet New Albion NA064CD James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie BBCSSO/Osmo Vanska BIS CD 1169 Orlando di Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum Hilliard Ensemble ECM 4538412 Holst: The Mystic Trumpeter Claire Rutter (sop)/ RSNO/ David Lloyd-Jones Naxos 8555776 Sorabji: Transcendental Studies Nos 6,7,8,9 Frederick Ullen (piano) BIS CD 13 Tippett: Ritual Dances from Midsummer Marriage The Air in Spring, then Fire in Summer Rita Cullis/Margaret MacDonald/Mark Curtis/Matthew Best/Chorus of Opera North/ English Northern Phiharmonia/ Sir Michael Tippett Nimbus NI5217