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An unpresented sequence or music to celebrate Maytime - a mix of spring and summer, three cuckoos, a nightingale, a dash of melancholy and an 'obby 'oss to follow.
Music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Thomas Morley, Vivaldi and Max Richter, Elgar, Daquin, Joseph Marx, Schumann and Dave Webber.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 1 May 2019 19:00

Music Played

  • Anon.

    Sumer is icumen in

    Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    May (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.
  • Thomas Morley

    Now is the month of maying

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • EMI.
  • Anthony Holborne

    Heigh Ho Holiday Galliard

    Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
    • CBS.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 295, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'

    Performer: Bob van Asperen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Virgin.
  • Louis鈥怌laude Daquin

    Le coucou (Harpsichord Suite no.3)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Edward Elgar

    May Song

    Performer: Marat Bisengaliev. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Elgar: The Violin Music.
    • NAXOS.
    • 12.
  • Robert Schumann

    Im wundersch枚nen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis Op.39.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Marx

    Maienbl眉ten (L. Jacobowsky)

    Performer: Katerina Karneus. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Song Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 121.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring 2 (The Four Seasons Recomposed)

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.
    • DG.
  • Dave Webber

    Hail, Hail the First of May

    Performer: Jon Boden.
    • Navigator Records.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 May 2019 19:00

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