18/11/2007
As St Cecilia's Day appraoches, Iain looks at music about music, including Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia and Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music.
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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