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Mary sits in for Iain Burnside and considers how composers have depicted weaving and spinning, and how creating music is a craft. With works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Dvorak.

Schubert
Gretchen 3’39
Elly Ameling (soprano) / Jorg Demus (piano)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77085 tr 3

Saint-Saens
Omphale’s Spinning Wheel 7’40
Philharmonia Orchestra / Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 425 021-2 tr 3Track 3

Bengt Hallberg The Blacksmith’s Tune 4’40
Scandinavian Brass Ensemble
BIS CD 265 track 1

Mozart
Adagio (for Glass Armonica) KV617a 4’40
Performers Dennis James
RIC 105041
CD 3 Track 10

Dvorak – the Golden Spinning Wheel 22’40
Czech Philharmonic / Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9048

Purcell
Fantasia on One Note 3’00
Fretwork
Virgin Classics 545 062 2 tr 14

Beethoven
Symphony no 8 (finale) 6’55
Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 471 490-2 tr 8

Boulez Notations VII 6’45
Orchestre National de Lyon / David Robertson (conductor)
Naïve MO 782 163 tr3 7’ 23

Nat King Cole
Weaver of Dreams 2’40
Victor Young (music) Jack Elliott (lyrics)
MUSIC FOR PLEASURE MFP 1049 tr 9

Thomas Dunhill
Cloths of Heaven 2’25
Felicity Lott (soprano) / Graham Johnson (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN 6653 tr 3

Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty 7’20
Russian National Orchestra
Conductor Mikhail Pletnev
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DG 457 634 2 CD1 tr 20

Respighi La bella dormente nel bosco 6’20
Slovak Philharmonia Chorus
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Adriano (NB no other name)
Marco Polo: 8223742 Track 15

Handel
Harmonious Blacksmith 4’30
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
DECCA 417 372 2 tr 4

Henze
The worker 2’50
Paul Sperry tenor / London Sinfonietta (male voice choir) / H-W Henze (conductor)
EXPO 078 CD2 tr 6Disc 2 Track 6

Britten
Peter Grimes - Embroidery Aria 3’00
Janice Watson- Ellen Orford / Anthony / LSO /
Sir Colin Davis (cond)
LSO Live LSO 0054 CD 3 Track 3

Mendelssohn
Spinning song Songs w/o words 2’15
Richard Burnett Op 67 No 4 in C
AMON RA CDSAR 38 tr 8

Randall Thompson
The Last Invocation 6’00
Scola Cantorum of Oxford / James Burton (conductor)
Hyperion CDA 67679 tr 10

2 hours

Last on

Sun 23 Nov 2008 10:00

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  • Sun 23 Nov 2008 10:00