Glinka, Arnalds, Purcell/Rees-Williams
Episode b09sr12n, broadcast at Friday 2nd March 2018, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites from Glinka and Chopin, alongside lesser-known works by Arnalds and Birgisson. Plus Bill Evans at the piano, and an arrangement of Purcell by David Rees-Williams.”
Track listing
- 0:06 – Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)
- Composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
- Conductor Mikhail Pletnev
- Orchestra Russian National Orchestra
- 6:39 – Letters of a Traveller
- Performer Ólafur Arnalds
- Performer Hallgrímur Jónas Jensson
- Performer Unnur Jónsdóttir
- Performer Viktor Orri Árnason
- Performer Björk Óskarsdóttir
- Performer Porarinn Baldursson
- 10:52 – Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 No 2 (track 16, Alexandre Tharaud: Chopin; Journal Intime)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Alexandre Tharaud
- 15:15 – Waltz for Debbie (track 2, Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Conversations with Bill Evans)
- Performer Jean‐Yves Thibaudet
- Composer Bill Evans
- 17:10 – String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata (1st mvt)
- Composer Leos Janáček
- Ensemble Takács Quartet
- 21:17 – Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals) (track 25, French and Russian Orchestral Works: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein)
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Conductor Leonard Bernstein
- Orchestra New York Philharmonic
- Performer David Hopper
- 23:31 – Dido's Lament
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Ensemble David Rees-Williams