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As St Cecilia's Day appraoches, Iain looks at music about music.

Boyce: Symphony, Op 2 No 5; Ode to St Cecilia (See fam'd Apollo)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
Oiseau Lyre 4367612

Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG4534332

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
London Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI CDC7472182

Janacek: Kreutzer Sonata Quartet
Medici Quartet
Nimbus NI5113

Schubert, arr. Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Yevgeny Kissin (piano)
DG 4350282

Strauss: Capriccio, Op 85 (Prelude)
Michael Cookson (viola)
Moray Welsh (cello)
Medici String Quartet
Nimbus NI 5076

Bach: Unaccompanied Bach Sonatas and Partitas
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
RCA GD87708

Glenn Gould: So you want to write a fugue?
Claron McFadden (soprano)
Marie-Therese Keller (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor)
Harry van der Kamp (bass)
String Quartet
Sony Classical SK47184

Strauss/Godowsky: Wine Women and Song
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
Nimbus NI 5043

Finzi: Ceremonial Ode For St Cecilia
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
David Hill (conductor)
Naxos 8.557863

Langgaard: Music of the spheres
Gitta-Maria Sjoberg (soprano)
Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Chandos chan9517

Handel: But bright Cecilia...As from the pow'r of sacred lays (An Ode for St Cecilia's Day)
Carolyn Samson (soprano)
King's Consort
Robert King (director)
Hyperion CDA677463.

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