Sunday Morning - Mary King - Music about Town and Country

Town and country. Town or country? As the 2008 holiday season draws to a close, comparisons of the two figure strongly in our minds. Sitting in for Iain Burnside, Mary King gathers up some musical examples by composers who have written about either or, in some cases, both. She is joined by composer and entertainer Richard Sisson, and there is music by Beethoven, Copland, Mozart, Reich and Handel. PLAYLIST Monteverdi: Lasciate i monti from Orfeo John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir /His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts DG Archiv 419 250-2 Stravinsky: Pastorale (Song without words) CBC Symphony Orchestra / Stravinsky (conductor) Sony (SX9K64136) Mozart: Symphony no 31 K297 - Allegro Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) Warner Classics 2564623342 Copland: Billy the Kid – extracts New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein (conductor) Sony 63082 Schumann: Waldszenen (excerpts) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Deutsche Grammophon 459 018-2 Handel: L’Allegro, Il penseroso ed il moderato Ensemble Orchestrale de Paris / Lynne Dawson / Bach Choir / John Nelson (conductor) Virgin Classics 7243 5 45417 Lord Kitchener: London is the Place for Me Lord Kitchener With Freddy Grant’s Caribbean Rhythm Honest Jon’s Records HJRCD2 Beethoven: Trio No1 in Eb op 1 no 1 (Adagio) Beaux Arts Trio Philips (4684112) Ian Venables: When Green buds Hang in the Elm-like Dust from Songs of Eternity and Sorrow Op. 36 Andrew Kennedy (tenor) / Dante Quartet / Simon Crawford-Philips (piano) Signum Classics SIGCD 112 Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 2 Scherzo RLPO / Vernon Handley EMI Classics for Pleasure 575 309 2 Reich: Tokyo / Vermont Counterpoint Mika Yoshida (marimba) Nonesuch 7559795462 Britten: If its Ever Spring Again Daniel Norman (tenor) / Christopher Gould (piano) BIS CD 1510 Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ‘Pastoral’ - Movement 3 ‘Merry Gathering of Country Folk’ Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan DG 474 603-2 Kurt Weill: Das Berliner Requiem ‘Ballad of the Drowned Girl’ and ‘Epitaph’ London Sinfonietta / David Atherton (conductor) Philip Langridge / Benjamin Luxon / Michael Rippon DG 459 442-2 Reynaldo Hahn: A Chloris Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) / Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) Linn CKD294 Handel: Coronation Anthem ‘The King shall rejoice’ Academy of Ancient Music / Choir of New College Oxford / Edward Higginbottom Decca 470 226-2 Elgar: Cockaigne Overture London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conductor) EMI 7243 5 75307