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David Owen Norris - Dream and Fantasy

David Owen Norris explores music of dream and fantasy. Featuring Elgar's Dream Children and an excerpt from Morning Heroes by Arthur Bliss.

David Owen Norris explores music of dream and fantasy. Elgar's Dream Children leads up to the two minutes' silence for Remembrance Sunday, which is followed by part of Morning Heroes by Arthur Bliss.

Playlist:

Warlock: Sleep
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
David Willison (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN8643 Tr 19
Dur: 2m35s

Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Artur Rubinstein (piano)
PHILIPS 4569552 CD Tr 5
Dur: 5m12s

Haydn: String Quartet, Op 50 No 5 (slow mvt)
Kodaly Quartet
NAXOS 8.553984 Tr 6
Dur: 3m25s

Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia
John Toll (organ of Adlington Hall)
LINN CKD125 Tr 5
Dur: 6m37s

Balfe: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls
Suzanne Murphy (soprano)
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Julian Smith (conductor)
Columbia 474 364-2 Tr 9
Dur: 3m55s

Stravinsky: Octet
Nash Ensemble
Elgar Howarth (conductor)
EMI 7243 5 72698 2 Trs 15, 16, 17
Dur: 15m20s

Liszt: Liebestraum No 3 in A flat
Jorge Bolet (piano)
DECCA 410 115 2 Tr 7
Dur 4m47s

Sibelius: Var det en drom, Op 37 No 4 (text JJ Wecksell)
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Marita Viitasalo (piano)
FINLANDIA FACD380 Tr 8
Dur: 2m06s

Elgar: Dream Children, Op 43
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrance Collingwood (conductor)
EMI 7243 5 65593 2 5 Trs 6 and 7
Dur: 7m31s

Bliss: Morning Heroes (excerpts)
i) Now, trumpeter, for thy close (Spring Offensive, by Wilfred Owen)
ii) Dawn on the Somme, by Robert Nicholls
Richard Baker (narrator)
成人快手 Symphony Chorus
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Charles Groves (conductor)
成人快手 Radio Classics 15656 91992 Tr 5 (in at 3m52s)
Dur: 8m53s

Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K397
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
BMG 82876-55705-2 CD 4, Tr 4
Dur: 5m58s

Faure: Apres un reve (arr Isserlis)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Pascal Devoyon (piano)
HYPERION CDA66235 Tr 8
Dur: 3m23s

Schumann: Phantasiestucke, Op 73
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
EMI 5 66290 2 Trs 1, 2, 3
Dur: 10m14s

Knussen: Where the Wild Things Are (Max's Escape)
Max ...... Rosemary Hardy (soprano)
Tzippy ...... Mary King (mezzo-soprano)
Wild Thing with Beard ...... Hugh Hetherington (tenor)
Wild Thing with Horns ...... Stephen Richardson (baritone)
Rooster Wild Thing ...... Stephen Rhys-Williams (bass-baritone)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
Unicorn DKPCD 9044 Tr 24 (fade out after first piccolo, Tr 25)
Dur: 1m38s

Wagner: Traume (Wesendonck-Lieder)
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)
REGIS RRC 4004 CD 4, Tr 10
Dur: 4m41s

Walton: Agincourt song (Henry V) (from the film, not the suite)
Philharmonia Orchestra
William Walton (conductor)
EMI CDM 5 65007 2 Tr 12
Dur: 2m15s

CPE Bach: Fantasia in A, H278
Lorenzo Ghielmi, fortepiano by Restelli (Milan 1996) after Silbermann 1749
W&W 910 140-2 Tr 4
Dur: 4m32s

Faure: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Pascal Devoyon (piano)
HYPERION CDA66235 Tr 2 (Andante)
Dur: 7m16s.

2 hours

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Nov 2009 10:00