When icicles hang from the sky
Episode m0001nsq, broadcast at Thursday 20th December 2018, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's specially curated wintry playlist: chill to Purcell’s Cold Song, John Rutter’s Icicles, and hang player Manu Delago, playing high up in the Alps with his intrepid band; all wrapped up in settings of the hymn tune Vom Himmel hoch.”
Track listing
- 0:49 – Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch', BWV 769a (track 12-16, J.S. Bach: Organ Works, Volume III)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Robert Quinney
- 2:17 – Drop down, ye heavens, from above (track 104, The Mystery of Christmas)
- Conductor Suzi Digby
- Composer Judith Weir
- Choir ORA Singers
- 3:52 – Des pas sur la neige (track 104, Debussy… et le jazz)
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Ensemble Quatuor Debussy
- 9:10 – Icicles (When icicles hang) (track 18, Fancies. Music by John Rutter)
- Conductor John Rutter
- Choir The Cambridge Singers
- Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
- 13:01 – North Cluster (track 3, Parasol Peak)
- Performer Manu Delago
- 15:16 – Ave Rex Angelorum
- Choir Trio Mediæval
- Composer Traditional English
- 17:21 – Melting Ice (track 9, Ketil Bjørnstad & Svante Henryson: Night Song)
- Performer Svante Henryson
- Performer Ketil Bjørnstad
- 20:39 – What pow'r art thou (King Arthur) (track 18, Purcell - King Arthur)
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Orchestra English Baroque Soloists
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Singer Stephen Varcoe
- 23:32 – Von Himmel Hoch (track 19, Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern)
- Composer Trad.
- Singer Dorothee Mields
- Director Wolfgang Katschner
- Ensemble Lautten Compagney
- 25:59 – December (The Year)
- Composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- Performer Lauma Skride