Moira has plenty of suitably sunny music for the season, including a definitive recording of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez from guitar legend Julian Bream, before a balmy Debussy favourite played by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. There’s also a fantastic suite of music from Gershwin’s opera Porgy & Bess, which features the song ‘Summertime’, arranged for piano and played by Wayne Marshall.
Elsewhere, one of the most exciting young orchestras of today, Chineke!, play Dvořák’s exciting ‘New World’ symphony, and there’s a former Classic FM Hall of Fame champion performed by Itzhak Perlman.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Andrew Manze conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Guitar: Julian Bream
Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Kurt Masur conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Antonin Dvořák
Symphony No.9 in E minor Opus 95
(‘From the New World’)
Kevin John Edusei conducts the Chineke! Orchestra
Gustav Holst
St Paul’s Suite Opus 29 No.2
Richard Hickox conducts the City of London Sinfonia
George Gershwin
Porgy & Bess: Symphonic Suite
Wayne Marshall directs the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra fom the piano
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor Opus 26
Violin: Itzhak Perlman
Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No.1
Mariss Jansons conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
