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Jonathan Swain

Jonathan Swain explores different composers' ideas of midsummer, from Purcell to Tippett. Plus music from pianist Gabriela Montero and works by Britten and Charles Ives.

Looking forward to tonight's 大象传媒 Proms performance of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music, Jonathan Swain explores different composers' ideas of midsummer, from Purcell to Tippett. His young Proms artist is pianist Gabriela Montero and he also presents Britten's Les Illuminations sung by Barbara Hannigan prior to her Proms appearance. The week's Americana is Charles Ives's Variations on America.

2 hours, 57 minutes

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Sun 21 Aug 2016 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • William Alwyn

    Miss Julie: Midsummer Night

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Midsummer Night.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Sonata Op 22

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Gabriela Montero: Solatino.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.

  • Frank Bridge

    There is a WIllow Grows Aslant a Brook

    Choir: Chamber Domaine. Conductor: Thomas Kemp.
    • Journey to Aldeburgh: Young Britten.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Illuminations Op 18

    Singer: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Director: Candida Thompson.
    • Britten.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    St John's Night on the Bare Mountain

    Singer: Anatoly Kocherga. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Choir: South Tyrol Children's Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mussorgsky: St John's Night on the Bare Mountain.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Anders Hillborg

    En Midsommarnattsdrom

    Choir: Allm盲nna S氓ngen. Conductor: Cecilia Rydinger Alin.
    • Resonanser.
    • BIS.
    • 11.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen: The Plaint - O let me ever, ever weep

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • The Fairy Queen.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • Helios.
    • 5.

  • Veljo Tormis

    Jaaniolaulud

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Baltic Runes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Michael Tippett

    The Midsummer Marriage Act III: Fire in Summer

    Singer: Joan Carlyle. Singer: Elizabeth Harwood. Singer: Stuart Burrows. Singer: Alberto Remedios. Ensemble: Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera Covent Garden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage.
    • Lyrita.
    • 18.

  • Charles Ives

    Variations on America

    Performer: Gerard Brooks.
    • Langham Place Fantasia: The Organ of All Souls, Langham Place, London.
    • Priory Records.

  • Charles Ives

    The Unanswered Question

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Symphony No. 2 鈥� Central Park In The Dark 鈥� The Unanswered Question 鈥� Tone Roads.
    • DG.
    • 11.

  • Leo Ornstein

    A La Chinoise Op. 39

    Performer: Alan Feinberg.
    • The American Innovator.
    • Argo.

  • John Cage

    Sonatas for Prepared Piano Nos 6-7

    Performer: Joanna McGregor.
    • Sonatas for Prepared Piano.
    • Soundcircus.
    • 7.

  • Walter Piston

    Symphony No 2

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Symphony no 2.
    • DG.
    • 9.

  • George Hamilton Green

    Log Cabin Blues

    Ensemble: Amadinda Percussion Group.
    • Music for Percussion.
    • Hungaroton.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Aug 2016 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3