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Sunday Morning

Music: Classical

Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sunday Morning: North and South

Sunday Morning: North and South: Episode 1: South

Episode 1

Episode 1: South

North and South

South

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning, North and South, South

Iain Burnside considers how composers such as Elgar depict 'the south' in music.

Iain Burnside is joined by pianist and author Roy Howat to considers how composers such as Elgar, Debussy and Albeniz have depicted southern climes.

Sunday Morning
with Iain Burnside

"South"

In the first of a pair of programmes exploring ideas of North and South, Iain is joined in the studio by pianist and author Roy Howat. With musical influences ranging from Andalucia to Dixieland, they look at how composers such as Elgar, Debussy and Albeniz have depicted Southern climes and succumbed to their charms.

Producer: Mark Swartzentruber 
Email: sundaymorning@bbc.co.uk
A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 3

Trad arr Gerald Moore: Blow the Wind Southerly
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Collins Classics 12472
T 25
D 3.00

Rimsky Korsakov: Scena e canto gitano & Fandango asturiano from Capriccio espagnol  Op 34
London Symphony Orchestra, 
Rudoph Gaehler (solo violin)
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc CD 80208
T8,9
D 4.56, 3.15

Elgar: In Smyrna
Stephen Hough (piano)
Hyperion CDA67267
 t9 
d4.26

Walton: Johannesburg Festival Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos CHAN88968 
t11 
d7.49

Rameau: L'Egyptienne
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
Brilliant Classics 939303
CD3 t15
D2.51

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto 5 in F "Egyptian"
Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Hyperion CDA 673312 
CD2 
t3-5 
d26.51

Bizet Les adieux de l'hotesse arabe
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
HMC 901138
T4 
D 5.11

Albeniz,:"El albaicin" from Iberia 
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
EMI CMS 7 64504 2
CD1 T7
D 6.42

Debussy: "La serenade interrompue" (Preludes book 1)
Roy Howat (piano)
Tall Poppies TP164
T13 
D 2.41

Chabrier: Rhapsody, Espana 
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham (conductor)
LPO 0006
T21
D 6.08

Purcell: "What power art thou?" from King Arthur
Petteri Salomaa (bass)
Les Art Florissants
William Christie (conductor)
Erato 4509-98535-2
CD1 t18
D 4.08

Gottschalk: Le banjo, Fantaisie grotesque
Cecile Licad (piano)
Naxos 8559145 
t1 
d3.12

Jordan, Larocca, Rob arr Dick Cary: Original Dixieland One-step
Jimmy McPartland (cornet) Jack Teagarden (trombone, vocal) Edmond Hall (clarinet) Dick Cary (piano, arr) Walter Page (bass) Jo Jones (drums)
Tradition TCD1036
t2 
d3.20

Ravel: Bolero
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 439859-2
t15 
d14.58.

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