Summer Solstice
Episode m0006465, broadcast at Friday 21st June 2019, 7:00pm.
“Celebrate the start of summer with a specially curated mix of music for the longest day of the year. Settle down in your deckchair for a sunshine-filled evening and experience the magic of midsummer with music from Delius, Duke Ellington and Debussy.”
Track listing
- 4:05 – Midsomer Murders
- Orchestra Studio Orchestra
- Conductor Jim Parker
- Performer Celia Sheen
- 6:55 – Horn Quintet in E flat major, K 407 (2nd mvt) (track 9, Mozart: Oboe Quartet/Horn Quintet: The Lindsays)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble Lindsay String Quartet
- Performer Peter Cropper
- Performer Ronald Birks
- Performer Robin Ireland
- Performer Bernard Gregor-Smith
- Performer Stephen Bell
- 13:13 – A Midsummer Night'S Dream - Incidental Music, Op.21. No. 3 Lied (track 6, LSO Live : LSO0795)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Performer Ceri-lyn Cissone
- 17:51 – Canarios
- Composer Antonio de Santa Cruz
- Ensemble Armoniosi Concerti
- 19:55 – Summer Evening
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- Composer Frederick Delius
- Orchestra Royal Northern Sinfonia
- 26:25 – Beau Soir (track 018, Songs from the Arc of Life)
- Performer Yo‐Yo Ma
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Kathryn Stott
- 28:52 – Sunset And The Mocking Bird (The Queen's Suite) (track 1, The Ellington Suites)
- Composer Duke Ellington
- Orchestra Duke Ellington and His Orchestra