Music for contemplation
Episode m00050cy, broadcast at Thursday 16th May 2019, 7:00pm.
“A reflective and emotional uninterrupted half hour, from the well-known to the unfamiliar.”
Track listing
- 0:22 – Cavalleria rusticana (Intermezzo) (track 5, Opera Intermezzi and Balle Music: Berlin Phil/Karajan)
- Conductor Herbert von Karajan
- Composer Pietro Mascagni
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic
- 3:50 – Stabat mater dolorosa (Stabat mater in F minor) (track 6, Pergolesi - Stabat Mater)
- Composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Orchestra Academy for Ancient Music Berlin
- Singer Anna Prohaska
- Singer Bernarda Fink
- Conductor Bernhard Forck
- 7:36 – Spring, Op 74, No 2 (track 15, Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Performer Vovka Ashkenazy
- 8:34 – Hary Janos - suite (Song) (track 11, Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite - Dances of Galanta...: BFO, Fischer)
- Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Conductor Iván Fischer
- Composer Zoltán Kodály
- 14:15 – Do not weep for me mother (Passion Week Op.13) (track 9, Steinberg: Passion Week/Capella Romana)
- Composer Maximilian Steinberg
- Singer Leslie Green
- Performer Cappella Romana
- Performer Alexander Lingas
- 16:58 – Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15 (2nd mvt) (track 3, Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2: Perahia/Haitink)
- Performer Murray Perahia
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Conductor Bernard Haitink
- 21:13 – Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Ruckert-Lieder)
- Composer Gustav Mahler
- Conductor Grete Pedersen
- Music Arranger Clytus Gottwald
- Choir Norwegian Soloists' Choir
- 25:51 – Silent Noon (The House of Life) (track 13, The English Songbook: Bostridge / Drake)
- Singer Ian Bostridge
- Performer Julius Drake
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams