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Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and looks at music festivals and their musicians, focusing on some of the composers and performers who have - for different reasons - often had a strong association with a particular festival.

With George Vass, director of the Presteigne Festival, and music from Britten, Wagner, Brahms, Tippett, Bernstein and Mendelssohn.

Purcell: Royal and Ceremonial Odes - Here the Deities approve
James Bowman / The King’s Consort / Robert King
Hyperion CDA66314

Wagner: Overture to Act 1 of Meistersinger
The Philadelphia Orchestra / Christian Thieleman (cond)
DG 453 485 2

Mozart: Violin Sonata K304
Yuuko Shiokawa – violin / Andras Schiff – fortepiano
Decca 436 547 2

Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti
Scene V – The Gymnasium
Julian Patrick (Sam) / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Sony Classical SMK 60969

Bach: St Matthew Passion ‘Behold my saviour now is taken’
Leith Hill Musical Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Ralph Vaughan Williams (cond)
Soprano - Pauline Brockless
Mezzo – Nancy Evans
Evangelist – Eric Greene
Piano – Eric Gritton
Pearl Gems 0079

Thomas Linley: Let God Arise (Overture)
The Parley of Instruments / Peter Holman (conductor)
Hyperion – Helios CDH55302

Adrian Thomas: Red Kite Flying
Gillian Keith (soprano) / Simon Lepper (piano)
Metronome MET CD 1065

David Matthews: From Sea and Sky (overture) op59
Orchestra Nova / George Vass (conductor)
Dutton CDLX 7189

Ravel String Quartet (1st movement)
Belcea Quartet
EMI 574 020

Erkki Sven Tuur: Illusion
Talinn Chamber Orchestra Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)
ECM New Series 1590 449 459-2

Britten: Spring Symphony
Catherine Robbin – contralto / Philharmonia Orchestra / Monteverdi Choir /
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 453 433 2

Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Manfred Clement – oboe / Staatskapelle Dresden / Rudolf Kempe (cond)
EMI CMS7643422

Menotti: 24’00Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Allegro Vivace)
Jennifer Koh (violin) / Spoleto Festival Orchestra / Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS Chan 9979

Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor K478 (Rondo / finale)
Kenneth Sillito (violin) / Cecil Aronowitz (viola) / Kenneth Heath (cello) Benjamin Britten (piano)
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖB 8005 2

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