Farewell to Stromness
Episode m0003svh, broadcast at Wednesday 3rd April 2019, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's specially curated mix of music, featuring favourites alongside rare gems. Tonight's edition includes a Gaelic ode to shinty, and music that Peter Maxwell Davies wrote in protest against a proposed uranium mine in the Orkney Islands – Farewell to Stromness.”
Track listing
- 0:01 – Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (2nd mvt) (track 2, Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 - 5; THe Hebrides, etc. - Wiener Philharmoniker, D)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic
- Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi
- 4:30 – Dindirindin
- Director Jordi Savall
- Ensemble Hespèrion XXI
- Composer Anon.
- Singer Montserrat Figueras
- 6:03 – 4 Scottish dances Op.59 (Scottish Waltz) (track 11, Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson)
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor Bryden Thomson
- Composer Malcolm Arnold
- 8:39 – Lady Mary Hey's Scots Measure (track 18, The Celtic Viol - La Viole Celtique)
- Performer Jordi Savall
- Performer Andrew Lawrence‐King
- Composer Trad.
- 11:04 – Camanachd Ghlaschu (The Glasgow Shinty)
- Composer Mary Ann Kennedy
- Composer Mary Macpherson
- Performer Finlay Wells
- Performer Lorne MacDougall
- Performer Allan MacDonald
- Performer Nick Turner
- Performer Robert Robertson
- 14:52 – Sinfonia (Cantata No 209, 'Non sa che sia dolore')
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Lisa Beznosiuk
- Director Monica Huggett
- Ensemble Sonnerie
- 20:46 – Farewell to Stromness (The Yellow Cake Revue) (track , Peter Maxwell Davies: A Celebration of Scotland: Scottish Chamber Orch & Choir)
- Performer Peter Maxwell Davies
- 25:32 – I could be happy (The Boyfriend Suite)
- Conductor Nicholas Cleobury
- Composer Peter Maxwell Davies
- Ensemble Aquarius