大象传媒

with Iain Burnside

Four

It's a common number in music: all those quartets, time signatures, a number of fine fourth symphonies, concertos, and sonatas - all those rousing finales. So today Iain Burnside takes a look at the number four, and how our appreciation of music would be so much diminished if the human race had taken the decision to work in base 3.
Producer: Lyndon Jones

Playlist:

Billy Mayerl/arr Ray Noble: Four Aces Suite
Ace of Clubs (2'27) / Ace of Diamonds (2'25) / Ace of Hearts (3'10) /
Ace of Spades (3'07)
Raie de Costa (piano) / New Mayfair Orchestra / Ray Noble
Conifer CDHD205 tr 20-23 total 11'09

ByrdMass for Four Voices (Agnus Dei)
Oxford Camerata /Jeremy Summerly
Naxos 8550574 t5 total 3'40

TochGeographical Fugue - Fuge aus der Geographie
Der Junge Chor Aachen/Fritz ter Wey
Thorofon CTH 2044 t6 3'28

Debussy Etude in 4ths, pour les quartes
Ju-Ying Song
Pro Piano PPR224503 t3 5'20

MessiaenQuartet for the End of Time /Danse de la Fureur, pour les sept trompettes
Joanna MacGregor (piano) / Madeleine Mitchell (violin) / David Campbell (clarinet) / Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Collins Classics 13932 t6 6'07

BrittenPeter Grimes / Four Sea Interludes (Sunday Morning)
RLPO / Libor Pesek
Virgin Classics 790 834-2 tr 53'44

Beethoven String Quartet op 18 no4 (1st movement)
Brodsky Quartet
Vanguard Classics 99212 CD 2 tr 45'27

Richard StraussFour Last Songs (Beim Schlafengehen)
Jessye Norman / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch / Kurt Masur
Philips 411 052-2 tr 36'06

Shostakovich String Quartet no4 (2nd movement)
Brodsky Quartet
TELDEC 2564 60867 2 CD 2 tr 76'19

Faur茅Dolly Suite (finale - Le Pas Espagnol)
Roy Howat/Emily Kirkpatrick (piano 4 hands)
ABC Classics CD2 tr 62'00

MozartDivertimento no 1 for 3 Basset horns KV 439b (Adagio)
Colin Lawson / Michael Harris / Timothy Lines basset horns
ASV CD GAU 246 tr 33'00

Judith Weir Distance and Enchantment
Domus
Collins Classics 14532 t6 8'36

BrahmsSymphony No 4 (finale)
Berlin Philharmonic/Sir Simon Rattle
EMI 2672542 CD3 t4 10'21.

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