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Music for a Summer Night

Jamie shares music associated with warmth, light and summer evenings, featuring Wayne Marshall's piano version of Summertime by Gershwin, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's depiction of the summer months, and flautist Katherine Bryan performs The Lark Ascending with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

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Sunday 19:00
BBC Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Wayne Marshall. Music Arranger: Wayne Marshall.
    • A Gershwin Songbook & Improvisations.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 7.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture and Incidental Music

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op 76 No. 4: 'Sunrise'

    Ensemble: Matangi Quartet.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Frederick Delius

    In a Summer Garden

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • DECCA.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess - opera in 3 acts: Act 2 sc.2; What you want wid Bess?

    Singer: Leontyne Price. Singer: McHenry Boatwright. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Skitch Henderson.
    • RCA.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    July (from Das Jahr)

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • CPO.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    August (from Das Jahr)

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel, F.: Keyboard Music, Vol. 1 - Das Jahr: 12 Characterstucke.
    • CPO.
    • 108.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    • Silver Bow.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 19:00
    BBC Radio Scotland