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Iain Burnside - Celebrating Summer

To celebrate summer, Iain tests out music past and present from the Age of Aquarius including Tippett's Dances from The Midsummer Marriage and Sorabji's Transcendental Studies.

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
´óÏó´«Ã½SSO/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

2 hours

Last on

Sun 29 Jun 2008 10:00

Broadcast

  • Sun 29 Jun 2008 10:00