Bartok, Nils Frahm, Handel
Episode m0000z01, broadcast at Monday 1st February 2021, 7:00pm, and Friday 2nd November 2018, 7:00pm.
“The "Hungarian sneezes" of Bartok's spicy First Rhapsody warm your cockles this evening, along with the intimate comfort blanket of Nils Frahm's Merry and Handel's spritely ode to love, Tornami a vagheggiar. Then there's Byrd's bold, echoing six-voice motet Attolite Portas ("open up your doors"), the chiming gamelan of Javanese court music, and a jaunty Marche des Combattants - Lully's celebration of King Louis XIV's victory against Franche-Comté. And there's time for a playful salon-oriented scherzo from Borodin's Second Quartet - a piece given an unexpected new life with the lyrics ‘Baubles, bangles and beads’ in the musical Kismet.”
Track listing
- 0:08 – Rhapsody no. 1 Sz.87, arr. for violin & orchestra (folk dances)
- Conductor Edward Gardner
- Orchestra Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Béla Bartók
- Performer James Ehnes
- Performer Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen
- 4:38 – Atollite portas (track 11, Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner)
- Composer William Byrd
- Director David Skinner
- Choir Alamire
- 9:12 – Jipang Prawa
- Composer Traditional Javanese
- Performer Mr Sulaeman
- Performer Mr Katiyo
- Performer Mr Sudarga
- Performer Mr Setu
- Performer Mr Suryabrata
- Performer Mr Sukaya
- 12:15 – Merry
- Performer Nils Frahm
- 16:17 – Marche des Combattants en rondeau (Alceste)
- Director Jordi Savall
- Ensemble Le Concert des Nations
- Composer Jean‐Baptiste Lully
- 20:36 – String Quartet No 2 in D major (2nd mvt) (track 6, Borodin: String Quartets nos 1&2: Borodin Quartet)
- Composer Alexander Borodin
- Ensemble Borodin Quartet
- 25:21 – Tornami a vagheggiar (Alcina)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Conductor Neville Marriner
- Singer Kathleen Battle