Happiness
Episode m000486g, broadcast at Thursday 18th April 2019, 7:00pm.
“29 minutes of unalloyed happiness, from Percy Whitlock's "Spade and Bucket Polka", to Cinderella leaving for the ball and dancing to Prokofiev's ballet music; from the hope of happiness in the future in Handel's oratorio "Jephtha" , to Bach's spiritual joy in his Cantata no 51; from Bobby McFerrin's positive attitude, to sheer musical joy from Mendelssohn and Django Reinhardt, and finally the choice of a dreamy happy ending (as opposed to the alternate less happy option) from the film "The French Lieutenant's Woman".”
Track listing
- 0:03 – Spade and Bucket Polka (Holiday Suite)
- Orchestra RTÉ Concert Orchestra
- Composer Percy Whitlock
- Conductor Gavin Sutherland
- 3:08 – These labours past (Jephtha) (track 1, Handel: Great Oratorio Duets)
- Singer Carolyn Sampson
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Singer Robin Blaze
- Director Nicholas Kraemer
- 6:16 – Don't worry be happy
- Performer Bobby McFerrin
- 10:06 – Happiness (Waltz Suite Op.110) (track 9, Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Waltz Suite)
- Conductor Marin Alsop
- Composer Sergei Prokofiev
- Orchestra São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
- 13:09 – Minor Swing (track 001, FINAL CUT: Music for four guitars)
- Composer Django Reinhardt
- Ensemble Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
- 15:26 – Cantata "Jachzet Gott in allen Landen" BWV 51 - Nos. 4 & 5: Chorale & Alleluja
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble The English Concert
- Conductor Harry Bicket
- Singer Elizabeth Watts
- 20:50 – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 (3rd mvt) (track , Mendelssohn/Bruch - Violin Concertos; Romance: Janine Jansen)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Conductor Riccardo Chailly
- Orchestra Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Performer Janine Jansen
- 26:33 – The French Lieutenant's Woman (The Happy Ending)
- Conductor Carl Davis