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Summer Record Review. Andrew McGregor with Jeremy Summerly. Proms Composer: Pascal Dusapin

With Andrew McGregor. Including Proms Composer: Pascal Dusapin; Classic recordings of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge; Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (excerpt).

with Andrew McGregor;

0930 Proms Composer: Pascal Dusapin
Andrew explores recordings of music by the contemporary French composer, Pascal Dusapin. His composing style is well known for its dynamic contrasts of tension and energy as well as his creative use of the technique of microtonality. He studied with Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and was greatly influenced by Varèse.

1030 Andrew talks to Jeremy Summerly about a recent reissue of classic recordings of the Choir of St John's College Cambridge on the Argo label.

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Excerpt from Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Staples (tenor)
RIAS Kammerchor
Staatsopernchor Berlin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim.

3 hours, 12 minutes

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Praise to the Holiest in the Height

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • The Dream of Gerontius.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Henry Purcell

    Draw Near, You Lovers Z462

    Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0087.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    Oh! The Sweet Delights Of Love (Dioclesian)

    Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bickett.
    • Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0087.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 8.
  • Matthew Locke

    Curtain Tune (The Tempest Part 2)

    Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bickett.
    • Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0087.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 i. Allegro di molto

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS-2168 SACD.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sarabande (Solo Cello Suite in C BWV1009)

    Performer: Pieter Wispelwey.
    • Channel Classics CCS 1090.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.
  • Pascal Dusapin

    Laps (1987) - Ending

    Performer: Benjamin Dieltjens. Performer: Arne Deforce.
    • Aeon AECD 1756.
    • Aeon.
    • 1.
  • Pascal Dusapin

    Quartet 6: Hinterland (3rd mvt).

    Ensemble: Arditti Quartet. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Aeon AECD 1753.
    • Aeon.
    • 3.
  • Pascal Dusapin

    Go (Solo No. 1)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Naïve MO 782180.
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    • 1.
  • Pascal Dusapin

    Uncut (Solo No. 7)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Naïve MO 782180.
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    • 2.
  • Pascal Dusapin

    Morning In Long Island i. Fragile

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 4810786.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Pascal Dusapin

    Aufgang (opening)

    Composer: Pascal Dusapin. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Erato 0825646026876.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 9 'New World' Op. 95 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Signum Classics SIGCD515.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 i. Allegro molto

    Performer: Ragnhild Hemsing. Performer: Tor Espen Aspaas.
    • 2L 138 SABD.
    • 2L.
    • 1.
  • Charles Mingus

    Haitian Fight Song

    Performer: Matt Haikovitz. Ensemble: Uccello.
    • Pentatone PTC 5186 659.
    • Pentatone.
    • 9.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Dream of Gerontius Part 1

    Performer: Andrew Staples. Performer: Thomas Hampson. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca 4831585.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

9.00am

Purcell, Locke, Blow & Gibbons

BLOW: Chaconne a 4 in G

GIBBONS, C: Fantasy-Suite in D minor

LOCKE: The Tempest: The Second Musicke; The Tempest: The First Musicke - Introduction, Galliard and Gavot

PURCELL: If music be the food of love (second version), Z379B; O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406; Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585); One charming night (from The Fairy Queen, Z629); Plainte - O, Let Me Weep (from The Fairy Queen, Z629); The Female Virtuosos: Love, thou art best, Z596; Chaconne (from The Fairy Queen); They Shall be as Happy as They're Fair (from The Fairy Queen); Music for a while, Z583; My dearest, my fairest (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585); O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402; Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627: Oh the sweet delights of love; Draw near, you lovers Z462

Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), The English Concert, Harry Bicket (conductor)

WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0087 (CD)

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Haydn: ‘Sun’ Quartets Op.20, Nos. 4-6 (Vol. 2)

HAYDN: String Quartet Op. 20 No. 4 in D major 'Sun'; String Quartet Op. 20 No. 5 in F minor; String Quartet Op. 20 No. 6 in A Major

Chiaroscuro Quartet

BIS BIS2168 (Hybrid SACD)

9.30am – Proms Composer: Pascal Dusapin

Bach: Cello Suites

J.S. BACH: Suite for solo cello Nos. 1-6

Pieter Wispelwey (cello)

Channel Classics

CCS 1090

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Dusapin: Item

DUSAPIN: Incisa; If; Item; Laps; Invece; Ipso; Immer; Ohe; Iota; Imago

Arne Deforce (cello), Benjamin Dieltjens (clarinet), Arne Deforce (cello)

AEON AECD1756 (2CD)

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Dusapin: Quatuor VI Hinterland & Quator VII OpenTime

DUSAPIN: String Quartet No. 6 'Hinterland'; String Quartet No. 7 'OpenTime'

Arditti Quartet, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

AEON AECD1753 (CD)

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Dusapin - 7 Solos for Orchestra

DUSAPIN: Go (solo no. 1); Extenso (solo no. 2); Apex (solo no. 3); Clam (solo no. 4); Exeo (solo no. 5); Reverso (solo no. 6); Uncut (solo no. 7)

Orchestre de Liege Wallonie Bruxelles, Pascal Rophe (conductor)

NAIVE MO782180

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Dusapin: Morning in Long Island

DUSAPIN: Morning In Long Island; Uncut (solo no. 7); Reverso (solo no. 6)

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

DG 4810786 (CD)

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Renaud Capucon plays Three Modern Concertos

DUSAPIN: Aufgang

MANTOVANI, B: Jeux d'eau pour violon et orchestra

RIHM: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 'Poem of the painter'

Renaud Capucon (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor), Orchestre de l'Opera national de Paris, Philippe Jordan (conductor), Wiener Symphoniker, ÌýÌý

ERATO 2564602687 (CD)

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10.15am – New Releases

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 & Sibelius: Finlandia

DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 'From the New World'

SIBELIUS: Finlandia Op. 26

Chineke! Orchestra, Kevin John Edusei

SIGNUM SIGCD515 (CD)

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Northern Timbre

GRIEG: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45

NIELSEN: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major Op. 9 (FS20)

SIBELIUS: Danses champetres Op. 106

Ragnhild Hemsing (violin), Tor Espen Aspaas (piano)

2L 2L138SABD (2SACD + Blu-ray)

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Meeting of the Spirits

Jazz milestones reimagined for a big band of cellos.

Music by John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, John Lewis, Billy Strayhorn, David Sandford, George Gershwin and Charles Mingus.

Arranged by David Sandford.

Matt Haimovitz (cello), Uccello

PENTATONE PTC5186659 (Hybrid SACD)

10.50am – Jeremy Summerly on St John’s Complete Argo recordings

The Choir of St John’s College Cambridge: The Complete Argo Recordings

BAIRSTOW: Let all mortal flesh keep silence

BANCHIERI: Omnes gentes

BEETHOVEN: Mass in C major Op. 86

BLOW: Sing unto the Lord, Oh ye Saints

BONONCINI, G B: Stabat Mater

BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols Op. 28; Rejoice in the Lamb Op. 30; Missa Brevis in D major Op. 63; Festival Te Deum in E Op. 32; Jubilate Deo in C major (1961); A Hymn to the Virgin; A Hymn of Saint Columba; Hymn to St. Peter Op. 56a

BRUCKNER: Offertorium: Afferentur regi; Os justi meditabitur sapientiam; Inveni David, offertorium for male chorus & 4 trombones,WAB 19; Pange lingua; Ecce sacerdos magnus

CALDARA: Crucifixus a 16 voci

CASCIOLINI: Angelus Domini, 8vv

DURUFLE: Requiem Op. 9; Quatre Motets sur des themes gregoriens Op. 10

FAURE: Requiem Op. 48; Cantique de Jean Racine Op. 11; Messe basse

GABRIELI, A: Missa Brevis

GESUALDO: O Vos Omnes

GOSS, J: If we believe that Jesus died

HAYDN: Mass, Hob. XXII:12 in B flat major 'Theresienmesse'; Mass, Hob. XXII:14 in B flat major 'Harmoniemesse'; Mass, Hob. XXII:10 in B flat major 'Heiligmesse'; Mass, Hob. XXII:13 in B flat major 'Schopfungmesse'; Mass, Hob. XXII: 9 in C major 'Paukenmesse'; Mass, Hob. XXII: 7 in B flat major 'Kleine Orgelmesse'; Mass, Hob. XXII: 5 in C major 'Cacilienmesse'

HAYDN, M: Ave Regina Caelorum, MH 140

HOWELLS: Like as the Hart; Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense, 1957)

HUMFREY: O give thanks unto the Lord; Hear, O Heav'ns; By the waters of Babylon

IRELAND: Greater Love Hath No Man

LANGLAIS: Messe Solennelle for mixed choir & organ

LISZT: Missa Choralis, S10

LOCKE: The King Shall Rejoice; When the Son of Man shall come in all His Glory

LOTTI: Crucifixus in 8 parts

MESSIAEN: O sacrum convivium

MONTEVERDI: Mass in Four Parts (1661); Mass in Four Parts (1640); Laudate pueri; Ut queant laxis from Selva morale e spirituale

MOZART: Mass in C major, K258 'Spaurmesse'; Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K339; Vesperae solennes de Dominica, K321; Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, K243

NARES: The souls of the righteous

ORR, R: They that put their trust in the Lord

PALESTRINA: Missa Veni sponsa Christi; Missa Assumpta est Maria; Missa Brevis

PEETERS: Missa Festiva Op. 62

PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater

POULENC: Mass in G major; Exultate Deo; Salve Regina; Litanies a la Vierge noire

PURCELL: Te Deum & Jubilate Deo in D, Z232; Funeral Sentances; Behold, I bring you glad tidings, Z2; In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, Z16; I was glad when they said unto me, Z19; O Lord God of hosts, Z37; O give thanks unto the Lord, Z33; They that go down to the sea in ships, Z57; Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z135; My beloved spake, Z28; O sing unto the Lord, Z44; Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?, Z25; Who hath believed our report?, Z64; Thy word is a lantern unto my feet, Z61

SCARLATTI, A: St. Cecilia Mass

SCHUBERT: Mass No. 6 in E flat major, D950; Mass No. 5 in A flat major, D678

SHEPPARD, J: Mass 'The Western Wynde'; Verbum caro factum est

STAINER: The Crucifixion

TALLIS: Te Deum; Iam Lucis; Clarifica Me, Pater; Fantasy; In ieiunio et fletu; Audivi vocem de caelo; Salve intemerata virgo

TIPPETT: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Lord, Thou has been our refuge

VICTORIA: Requiem 1605 'Officium defunctorum'; O magnum mysterium, motet; Ave Maria; Missa O quam gloriosum

VIVALDI: Gloria, RV588; Gloria in D major, RV589

WALMISLEY: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in D

WALTON: A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears'

WEELKES: Give ear, O Lord; When David Heard; Hosanna to the Son of David

WESLEY, S: In Exitu Israel

WESLEY, S S: The Wilderness; Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace; Blessed be the God and Father

The Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, George Guest (organist and choir master)

DECCA 4831252 (42CD)

11.45am – Disc of the Week

ELGAR: The Dream of Gerontius Op. 38

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Angel), Andrew Staples (Gerontius), Thomas Hampson (Priest/Angel of the Agony), Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsopernchor, RIAS Kammerchor, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

DECCA 4831585 (2CD)

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