Rule Britannia
Episode m0008bgk, broadcast at Friday 13th September 2019, 7:00pm.
“What shall we do with a wayward Mixtape? Marking the Last Night of the Proms tomorrow and Henry Wood's 'Sea Songs', Beethoven meddles with a popular patriotic tune of the day, and the Swedish Mozart makes an onstage hero of Jolly Jack Tar.”
Track listing
- 0:43 – Turkish March (Rondo alla Turca from Piano sonata no.11) (track 5, Stokowski Encores)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor Matthias Bamert
- Music Arranger Leopold Stokowski
- 3:28 – Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV 27 (track 2, Schutz: Psalmen Davids: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge)
- Ensemble His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
- Performer Richard Pearce
- Composer Heinrich Schütz
- Director Richard Marlow
- Performer James Morgan
- Choir Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 7:15 – Romeo & Juliet - selection from suites nos. 1, 2 & 3
- Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Composer Sergei Prokofiev
- Conductor Thomas Søndergård
- 9:24 – Present Tense
- Performer Chilly Gonzales
- 12:00 – Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda) (track 1, Hymn to the Dawn)
- Composer Gustav Holst
- Choir Etherea Vocal Ensemble
- Performer Grace Cloutier
- Director Derek Greten-Harrison
- 14:53 – String Quartet in E minor, 2nd movt : Quickly and lightly
- Composer Frederick Delius
- Ensemble Villiers Quartet
- 18:52 – Ma bergère est tendre et fidèle (track 3, Anne Sofie von Otter: Ombre de mon Amant)
- Director William Christie
- Orchestra Les Arts Florissants
- Singer Anne Sofie von Otter
- Composer Michel Lambert
- 21:25 – Five Variations on 'Rule Britannia', WoO 79 (track 3, Beethoven: Piano Variations: Olli Mustonen)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer Olli Mustonen
- 25:31 – Three Shanties for wind quartet (No 1) (track 28, Arnold: Wind Chamber Music: East Winds)
- Composer Malcolm Arnold
- Ensemble East Winds