Curzon, Shearing, Elgar
Episode b0bfxyg5, broadcast at Monday 20th August 2018, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening. Today's Mixtape begins with Le Boulevardier composed by Frederic Curzon before taking us on a journey of genres, featuring Richard Rodney-Bennett and George Shearing. This Mixtape ends with Camille Saint-Saens' Suite Algerienne Op. 60 which can be heard live at the last night of the BBC Proms on the 8th of September.”
Track listing
- 0:05 – Le Boulevardier - characteristic intermezzo (track 6, British Light Music Classics - 1)
- Conductor Ronald Corp
- Performer Julian Leaper
- Orchestra The New London Orchestra
- Composer Frederic Curzon
- 4:01 – String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 5 (4th mvt) (track 8, Hamilton Harty - String Quartets; Piano Quintet)
- Ensemble Goldner String Quartet
- Composer Sir Hamilton Harty
- 10:06 – Valse mignonne (track , Vaino Raitio: Queen of the Flowers: Tapiola Sinfonietta/Tuomas Ollila)
- Ensemble Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Composer Väinö Raitio
- Conductor Tuomas Hannikainen
- 13:02 – Up with the lark (track , Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett)
- Music Arranger Richard Rodney Bennett
- Composer Jerome Kern
- 15:25 – Lullaby of Birdland (track , Stan Getz: 'The Best Of' The Roost Years)
- Performer Stan Getz
- 17:50 – Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D.774 (track 014, Schubert: Lieder)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Singer Ian Bostridge
- Performer Julius Drake
- 21:15 – Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20
- Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Conductor Sir Andrew Davis
- 24:09 – Marche militaire française (Suite algérienne) (track 12, Saint-Saens - Africa)
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Conductor Geoffrey Simon
- Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra