The Early Music Show - 29/06/2008

Lucie Skeaping interviews musician and publisher Ian Gammie about Dr Charles Burney's musical perambulations through Germany and The Netherlands in the 1770s, as he sought to gather information for his proposed publication of A History of Music on his second European journey. With music by some of the composers he met along the way, including Gluck, Hasse and Quantz. Handel: See The Conquering Hero Comes (excerpt) Adrian Gebruers (The Carillon of St John's Kirk, Perth) SAYDISC CD SDL 429 - Tr 15 Johann Stamitz: Concerto for viola and orchestra in G (1st mvt) Jan Peruska (viola) Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) PANTON 81 1422-2 131 - Tr 4 Abel: Sonata in G for viola da gamba Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba) HYPERION CDA 67628 - Trs 11-14 Gluck: Par un pere cruel (Iphigenie en Aulide) Ann Sophie von Otter (Clytemnestre) Orchestre de L'Opera de Lyon John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) ERATO 2292 45003-2 - CD2 Tr 5 Haydn: String Quartet in A minor, H III 36 (2nd mvt) Hagen Quartet DG 439 920-2 - CD 2 Track 10 Hasse: Digli che io son fedele (Cleofide) Emma Kirkby (Cleofide) Capella Coloniensis William Christie (conductor) CAPRICCIO 10 193 - CD3 Tr 2 Quantz: Concerto in A, No 256 (3rd mvt) Rachel Brown (flute) The Brandenburg Consort Roy Goodman (director) HYPERION CDA 66927 - Tr 3 CPE Bach: Keyboard Sonata in G, Wq 62 No 2 Miklos Spanyi (clavichord) BIS CD 963 - Trs 4-6.