Switch up your listening with classical music
Episode b0b8gw4k, broadcast at Tuesday 22nd September 2020, 7:00pm, and Thursday 5th July 2018, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's specially curated playlist on the theme of summertime as the season changes and the high temperatures start to fade, including a fiery summer storm by Vivaldi, Barber in a nostalgic mood, and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong performing Gershwin - the perfect way to usher in your evening. Produced by Dominic Wells.”
Track listing
- 0:35 – Knoxville: Summer of 1915
- Singer Dawn Upshaw
- Conductor David Zinman
- Orchestra Orchestra of St. Luke’s
- Composer Samuel Barber
- 3:41 – Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Emmanuel Pahud
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- 6:15 – The Wasps (Overture)
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Orchestra Hallé
- Conductor Sir Mark Elder
- 11:56 – The Seasons: July (Song of the Reaper)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy
- 13:35 – Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf: As Torrents in Summer
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Conductor Christopher Robinson
- Choir Cambridge University Chamber Choir
- 15:43 – The Midsummer Marriage (Ritual Dances)
- Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- Composer Michael Tippett
- 20:54 – Hotel (Banalites)
- Composer Francis Poulenc
- Singer Régine Crespin
- Performer John Wustman
- 22:57 – The Four Seasons - 'Summer': III. Tempo impetuoso d'Estate
- Composer Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer Fabio Biondi
- Orchestra Europa Galante
- 25:20 – Summertime (Porgy and Bess)
- Composer George Gershwin
- Performer Louis Armstrong
- Singer Ella Fitzgerald