Welcome to Fairyland
Episode m0002r9l, broadcast at Monday 25th February 2019, 7:00pm.
“Taking as a starting point Weber's opera Oberon - one of the works that feature in Our Classical Century - we invite you into a magical world of fairies, goblins, trolls and elves, with a couple of wild bears thrown in for good measure. Produced by Dominic Wells.”
Track listing
- 0:25 – Oberon (Overture) (track , Weber: Overtures: Tapiola Sinfonietta, Kantorow)
- Orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor Jean‐Jacques Kantorow
- Composer Carl Maria von Weber
- 4:07 – A Midsummer Night's Dream suite (Intermezzo)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- 5:04 – Lyric Pieces: March of the Trolls
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- Performer Leif Ove Andsnes
- 8:00 – Dance of the Elves
- Performer Thomas Adès
- Performer Steven Isserlis
- Composer David Popper
- 11:01 – One charming night (The Fairy Queen) (track 8, Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina)
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Singer Andreas Scholl
- Orchestra Accademia Bizantina
- Conductor Stefano Montanari
- 13:21 – Dance of the Goblins
- Performer Gil Shaham
- Composer Antonio Bazzini
- Performer Jonathan Feldman
- 18:34 – Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker) (track 12, Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle)
- Conductor Sir Simon Rattle
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- 21:00 – The Dew Fairy (The Hour Glass) (track 16, Stephen Hough's English Piano Album)
- Composer Frank Bridge
- Performer Stephen Hough
- 23:43 – The Wild Bears (The Wand of Youth Suite no.2 Op.1b) (track 17, Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & No.2: Handley)
- Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Conductor Vernon Handley
- 26:00 – Ma mère l'oye (Le jardin féerique) (track 17, Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Orchestra Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Yannick Nézet‐Séguin