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Mourne Chamber Music Festival Preview

John chats with Orla McGarrity, Festival Director of Mourne Chamber Music Festival about this Summer's Edition in Newcastle, County Down. Our CD of the Week features Soprano/Conductor Barbara Hannigan.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik: I. Allegro

    Performer: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Fritz Busch.

  • Justin Hurwitz

    Planetarium

    Performer: Justin Hurwitz.

  • Lucio Dalla

    Caruso

    Performer: Katherine Jenkins. Performer: Czech Film Orchestra. Featured Artist: James Banbury.

  • John Barry

    The John Dunbar Theme (From Dances with Wolves)

    Performer: The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Performer: Paul Bateman.

  • Cole Porter

    Anything Goes: Overture (Orch. Spialek)

    Performer: London Sinfonietta. Performer: John McGlinn.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Vier Zwischenspiele, op. 33a aus Peter Grimes: Dawn

    Performer: Concertgebouw Kamerorkest.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess, a Symphonic Picture (Arr. for Orchestra by Robert Russell Bennett): VII. Bess, You is My Woman Now

    Performer: Barbara Hannigan. Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Albinoni: Concerto a 5 in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2 for Oboe, Strings, and Continuo: 2. Adagio

    Performer: Frank de Bruine. Performer: Academy of Ancient Music. Featured Artist: Christopher Hogwood.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70: III. Allegretto moderato

    Performer: Borodin Quartet. Performer: Mikhail Milman. Featured Artist: Borodin Quartet,Mikhail Milman,Yuri Yurov. Performer: Yuri Yurov.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nimrod

    Performer: Brighouse and Rastrick Band.

  • Trad.

    The Flower of Sweet Strabane (Arr. for Piano by Barry Douglas)

    Performer: Barry Douglas.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a: VI. June. Barcarolle. Andante cantabile

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Drop, Drop, Slow Tears

    Performer: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.

  • Thomas Persson

    Drop, Drop, Slow Tears

    Performer: Pelle Olofson. Performer: Lilla Kören.

  • Jule Styne

    At the Fair: III. Don't Rain on My Parade

    Performer: Barbara Hannigan. Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: 2. Aase's death

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Raymond Leppard.

  • Victor Young

    When I Fall in Love

    Performer: The King’s Singers. Performer: The King’s Singers. Lyricist: Edward Heyman.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elias, Op. 70, Pt. 1: No. 14, Aria. Herr Gott Abrahams

    Singer: Andrè Schuen. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Arr. for Tuscan Mandolin by Alon Sariel): II. Courante

    Performer: Alon Sariel.

  • Ernesto Nazareth

    Nazareth: Brejeiro (Tango Brasileiro)

    Performer: Lang Lang.

Broadcast

  • Sunday19:03
    BBC Radio Foyle & BBC Radio Ulster