Horns, Pipes and Hornpipes
Episode m00066r3, broadcast at Wednesday 26th June 2019, 7:00pm.
“This mixtape features a celebration of the french horn with music by Britten, Mahler and Richard Strauss, various pipes (reed pipes from Tchaikovsky and bagpipes from Peter Maxwell Davies) and a couple of dancing hornpipes.”
Track listing
- 0:07 – Serenade for tenor, horn and strings: Prologue
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Performer Richard Watkins
- 1:35 – Ich schwing mein Horn ins Jammertal
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- 4:26 – Horn Concerto no.1 in E flat major Op.11
- Orchestra Britten Sinfonia
- Composer Richard Strauss
- Conductor Nicholas Cleobury
- Performer David Pyatt
- 9:23 – Symphony no.6 in A minor (2nd mvt)
- Composer Gustav Mahler
- Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Conductor Iván Fischer
- 13:26 – An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (track , Pops Britannia: John Williams/Boston Pops Orchestra)
- Orchestra Boston Pops Orchestra
- Conductor John Williams
- Composer Peter Maxwell Davies
- Performer Nancy Crutcher Tunnicliffe
- 15:23 – Suite in D major, HWV 349, 'Water Music' (Alla hornpipe) (track 18, Handel: Fireworks & Water Music: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Marriner)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Conductor Neville Marriner
- Performer John Constable
- 19:28 – The Galway Bay Hornpipe (track 1, The Celtic Viol 2: Savall/Lawrence-King/McGuire)
- Performer Jordi Savall
- Performer Andrew Lawrence‐King
- Performer Frank McGuire
- Composer Traditional Irish
- 22:26 – The Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a (Dance of the Reed-Pipes)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Conductor Valery Gergiev
- Orchestra Mariinsky Orchestra
- 24:46 – Serenade for tenor, horn and strings: Sonnett; Epilogue
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Performer Richard Watkins
- Singer Allan Clayton
- Orchestra Aldeburgh Strings
- Director Markus Däunert