Sketches of Spain
Episode m00027m2, broadcast at Tuesday 29th January 2019, 7:00pm.
“Sun, sea and sand. There's more to Spain than that in the In Tune Mix Tape, from Miles Davis and Gil Evans to Scarlatti and Gaspar Sanz, Renaissance choral music to dance music for guitar and an evocation of the night time streets of Madrid.”
Track listing
- 0:29 – Quintet in C major 'La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid' (Passacalle)
- Composer Luigi Boccherini
- Ensemble Casals Quartet
- Performer Eckart Runge
- 2:30 – Torero (Carmen Suite) (track Track 9, Shchedrin: Carmen Suite: Russian National Orchestra, Pletnev)
- Conductor Mikhail Pletnev
- Composer Rodion Shchedrin
- Orchestra Russian National Orchestra
- 5:11 – Sonata in E major Kk.206 (track 22, Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti)
- Composer Domenico Scarlatti
- Performer Murray Perahia
- 8:12 – Nights in the Gardens of Spain (i. En el Generalife) (track 4, Hyperion)
- Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Manuel de Falla
- Performer Steven Osborne
- Conductor Ludovic Morlot
- 12:39 – Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd mvt)
- Composer Joaquín Rodrigo
- Performer Miles Davis
- Music Arranger Gil Evans
- Performer Jimmy Cobb
- Performer Paul Chambers
- Performer Elvin Jones
- Orchestra Jazz Orchestra
- 16:29 – Variations on a theme of Chopin (Variation 11) (track 24, Hommage A Chopin: Jonathan Plowright piano)
- Composer Federico Mompou
- Performer Jonathan Plowright
- 18:35 – O lux et decus Hispaniae (track 5, Santiago a cappella; Gardiner)
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Composer Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Singer Elin Manahan Thomas
- Singer Grace Davidson
- Singer Samuel Evans
- 22:40 – 4 pieces from "Instrucción de música sobre la guitara española" [1674]
- Composer Gaspar Sanz
- Performer Xavier Díaz-Latorre
- Performer Pedro Estevan
- 26:12 – España
- Composer Emmanuel Chabrier
- Orchestra The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Conductor Riccardo Muti