Those were the days my friend
Episode m00057hm, broadcast at Thursday 24th March 2022, 7:00pm, and Monday 20th May 2019, 7:00pm.
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Cabaret singer? A familiar tune in an unfamiliar disguise in tonight's MixTape. And that's ignoring the frog with a violin concerto and a legendary harp made by Vainamoinen, a god in the Finnish epic the 'Kalevala', from the jawbone of a giant pike, strung with the hair of a fair maiden....allegedly.”
Track listing
- 0:11 – Dance of the Marionette (Japanese Suite, Op 33) (track 6, Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Composer Gustav Holst
- Conductor Sir Andrew Davis
- Choir Manchester Chamber Choir
- 1:45 – Variations on five old Icelandic ballads; no. 2 Cantabile
- Composer Jorunn Vidar
- Performer Valgerour Andresdottir
- 3:47 – Je elsker dae (track 9, Sinikka Langeland: Runoja)
- Composer Trad.
- Singer Sinikka Langeland
- 5:24 – Concerto for violia and orchestra in G major, TWV 51:G9
- Composer Georg Philipp Telemann
- Performer Rainer Kussmaul
- Ensemble Berlin Baroque Soloists
- 10:23 – Green Leaf Prelude (track 2, Ragtime & Blue)
- Composer Elena Kats‐Chernin
- Performer Nicola Sweeney
- Performer Sarah Nicolls
- 12:40 – Along a winding road (Those were the days) (track 16, Alexander Vertinsky)
- Orchestra Unknown
- Singer Alexander Vertinsky
- 15:19 – The Windmills of Your Mind (track 113, As Time Goes By)
- Ensemble Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker
- Composer Michel Legrand
- Music Arranger Michail Tsygutkin
- 22:26 – Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra in D minor - Finale
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Performer Min-Jung Kym
- Performer Zsolt‐Tihamér Visontay
- Conductor Clemens Schuldt
- 24:23 – Passaggio rotto (track 5, Rachel Podger: Guardian Angel)
- Performer Rachel Podger
- Composer Nicola Matteis
- 27:02 – The Wand of Youth Suite No 1
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Conductor Neville Marriner