Storms and Tempests
In today's programme of record requests by the under-20s CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD traces the progress of the musical storm from the Baroque. through the Sturm und Drang influence on the Classical style, to its absorption into the language of the Romantics.
Matthew Locke Incidental Music: The Tempest
Vivaldi Concerto in E flat (La tempesta di mare)
Holzbauer Symphony in E flat, Op 4 No 3 (La tempesta del'mar)
Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
Tchaikovsky Fantasy: The Tempest