Sunday Morning - Music for Midsummer
With Iain Burnside. Iain concentrates on music for midsummer, picking out a selection from across Europe that includes works by Wagner, Mendelssohn, Suk and Britten. Mendelssohn: Overture (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Alliage Quartet Jang Eun Bae (conductor) MDG90313966 Tr 5 Duration: 6m6s Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water Cambridge Singers Mark Padmore (tenor) John Rutter (conductor) CSCD 505 Tr 3 Duration: 4m34s Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg Flieder Monologue Bernd Weikl (baritone) Bavarian State Orchestra Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) EMI CD5551422 CD2 T8 Duration: 5m20s Sally Beamish: The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone (opening) John Harle (sax) Swedish Chamber Orchestra Ola Rudner (conductor) BIS CD1161 Tr 4 Duration: 3m18s Suk: A Summer's Tale (In the Power of Phantoms/Night) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Mackerras (conductor) Decca 466 443 2 Trs 4-5 Duration: 25m50s (10m41s; 15m9s) June Tabor: Seven Summers Topic TSCD449 Tr 10 Duration: 3m40s Handel: Solomon (Nightingale Chorus, Act 1) RIAS Kammerchor and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Daniel Reuss (conductor) Harmonia Mundi HMCD901949 CD1 Tr 20 Duration: 4m25s Daquin: Le coucou Sophie Yates (harpsichord) Chandos Chan 0598 Tr 12 Duration: 2m18s Debussy: Suite pour le piano Mark Swartzentruber Solo Records SLR5 Trs 10-12 Duration: 13m24s John Beckwith: O Purple Finch Doug Macnaughton (baritone) William Aide (piano) CMCCD 12907 Tr 3 Duration: 2m54s Stanford: The Blue Bird Cambridge Singers John Rutter (conductor) CSCD 505 Tr 1 Duration: 3m55s Schumann: Der Vogel als Prophet Moura Lympany (piano) EMI CDZ7672042 Tr 15 Duration: 3m35s Gershwin: Summertime/A woman is a sometime thing Jascha Heifetz (violin) Brooks Smith (piano) RCA 0902661 Trs 4-5 Duration: 3m15s (1m40s; 1m35s) Tchaikovsky: Les Saisons (Juin) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Decca 466 562 2 Tr11 Duration: 5m24s Borodin: String Quartet No 1 (Scherzo) Borodin Quartet EMI CDC 747 795 2 Tr 3 Duration: 5m10s Frank Bridge: Summer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Charles Groves (conductor) EMI CDM5 66855-2 Tr 5 Duration: 9m37s.