Beautiful Butterflies
Episode m000768b, broadcast at Thursday 1st September 2022, 7:00pm, and Wednesday 31st July 2019, 7:00pm.
“This mixtape features music inspired by butterflies, from tiny miniatures by Fauré, Grieg and Schumann, to the lush, heart-on-sleeve romanticism of He Zhanhao and Chen Gang's 'Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto and Puccini's passionate opera Madam Butterfly.”
Track listing
- 0:12 – Symphony no. 12 in E major H.1.12: 3rd movement; Finale (Presto)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Conductor Giovanni Antonini
- Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico
- 0:22 – Papillon for cello and piano, Op 77 (track 9, Faure: Cello Sonatas: Alban Gerhardt/Cecile Licad)
- Performer Alban Gerhardt
- Composer Gabriel Fauré
- Performer Cécile Licad
- 3:00 – The Wand of youth - suite no. 2 (Op.1b), Moths and Butterflies (Dance) (track 10, The Wand Of Youth Suites etc.)
- Composer Edward Elgar
- Orchestra Hallé
- Conductor Sir Mark Elder
- 5:07 – Sommerfugl (Lyric Pieces, Op.43 No.1)
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- Performer Javier Perianes
- 6:57 – The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (Part I: Falling in Love)
- Composer Gang Chen
- Performer Lü Siqing
- Composer Ho Zhanhao
- Conductor Yiu-Kwong Chung
- Orchestra Taipei Chinese Orchestra
- 11:16 – Papillons
- Composer Camille Saint‐Saëns
- Singer Sandrine Piau
- Orchestra Le Concert de la Loge
- Conductor Julien Chauvin
- 14:32 – Butterfly Dreams (excerpts)
- Conductor Stephen Layton
- Choir Polyphony
- Composer John Tavener
- 16:43 – The Butterfly's Ball
- Conductor Rumon Gamba
- Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Composer Frederic Hymen Cowen
- 18:58 – Symphony no.1 in E minor
- Composer Jean Sibelius
- 19:45 – Papillons, Op 2 (No 5 in B flat major)
- Composer Robert Schumann
- Performer Marc-André Hamelin
- 21:06 – Vogliatemi bene (Madama Butterfly)
- Conductor Herbert von Karajan
- Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic
- Singer Luciano Pavarotti
- Composer Giacomo Puccini
- Singer Mirella Freni