Maytime
Episode m0004m7m, broadcast at Wednesday 1st May 2019, 7:00pm.
“An unpresented sequence or music to celebrate Maytime - a mix of spring and summer, three cuckoos, a nightingale, a dash of melancholy and an 'obby 'oss to follow. Music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Thomas Morley, Vivaldi and Max Richter, Elgar, Daquin, Joseph Marx, Schumann and Dave Webber.”
Track listing
- 0:46 – Sumer is icumen in
- Composer Anon.
- Ensemble The Dufay Collective
- 5:16 – May (The Year)
- Composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- Performer Lauma Skride
- 8:26 – Now is the month of maying
- Ensemble The King’s Singers
- Composer Thomas Morley
- 10:08 – Heigh Ho Holiday Galliard (track 4, Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music)
- Ensemble Canadian Brass
- Music Arranger Mark Kroll
- Composer Anthony Holborne
- 11:24 – Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 295, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Performer Bob van Asperen
- 15:01 – Le coucou
- Performer Trevor Pinnock
- Composer Louis‐Claude Daquin
- 16:55 – May Song (track 12, Elgar: The Violin Music)
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Performer Benjamin Frith
- Performer Marat Bisengaliev
- 20:16 – Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe) (track 1, Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis Op.39)
- Composer Robert Schumann
- Singer Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
- Performer Christoph Eschenbach
- 21:44 – Maienblüten (L. Jacobowsky) (track 121, Song Recital)
- Performer Roger Vignoles
- Composer Joseph Marx
- Performer Katerina Karneus
- 23:43 – Spring 2 (The Four Seasons Recomposed)
- Composer Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer Daniel Hope
- Composer Max Richter
- Orchestra Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin
- Conductor André de Ridder
- 27:00 – Hail, Hail the First of May
- Performer Jon Boden
- Composer Dave Webber