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Lavinia Meijer, Nico Muhly, James Boyd

Sean Rafferty is joined by celebrated young composer Nico Muhly. Plus live music from harpist Lavinia Meijer and guitarist James Boyd.

Sean Rafferty talks to acclaimed young New York composer Nico Muhly, he's been described as the 'hottest composer on the planet' and Sean asks him about his latest project with St John's Cambridge choir.

There's live music from harpist Lavinia Meijer, who will be playing the haunting music of Ludovico Einaudi. Plus guitarist and part time sailor James Boyd performs some classical English masterpieces.

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2 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in C minor BWV.1060 for 2 keyboards and string orchestra [from lost concerto for 2vn or ob & vn]

    Performer: Masaaki Suzuki. Performer: Japan Bach Collegium.
    • Bis.
    • 2051.
  • William Byrd

    Miserere mei, Deus

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Performer: Aurora Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 478-27313.
  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Divenire

  • Philip Glass

    Metamorphosis for piano

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 49 in F minor H.1.49 (La Passione)

    Performer: Richard Egarr. Performer: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • AAM.
    • 001.
  • Alejandro Vivanco

    Gloria from Missa In Manus Tuas

    Performer: Michael Noone. Performer: Orchestra of the Renaissance.
    • Glossa.
    • GCD-81405.
  • Lavinia Meijer

    Variation on Arirang (Korean folk song)

  • IGNAZ PLEYEL

    String Quartet in B flat major Ben331 mov.3

    Performer: Pleyel Quartet of Cologne.
    • CPO.
    • 777-777-2.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Nocturnal after John Dowland Op.70 for guitar

    Performer: James Boyd.
  • Joseph Phibbs

    Suite for Guitar

    Performer: James Boyd.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness, arr. T Walker for guitar [orig. piano]

    Performer: James Boyd.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alpestre monte - (acc.) Italian cantata no.2 for soprano, 2 violins and continuo

    Conductor: Harry Bicket. Performer: Lucy Crowe. Performer: The English Concert.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMU 907559.
  • John Sheppard

    Mass 'The Western wynde' for 4 voices [Lbm Add.17802-5]

    Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha. Performer: St John's College Cambridge Choir.
    • Chaconne.
    • CHSA-0401.
  • Nico Muhly

    I drink the air before me - ballet

    Composer: Nico Muhly. Performer: Young People's Chorus of New York.
    • DECCA.
    • 478-2570.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier - opera in 3 acts Op.59 [1909-10]

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Decca.
    • 417-4932.
  • Richard Strauss

    Ariadne auf Naxos - opera in a prologue & 1 act Op.60 [usually-performed vers.]

    Conductor: Richard Armstrong. Performer: Alice Coote. Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN-3168.

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  • Wed 21 May 2014 16:30

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