A to Z
Episode m0008p7h, broadcast at Wednesday 25th September 2019, 7:00pm.
“Two's company with pairs of pianos, oboes and opera characters, charting an A to Z of composers - John Adams to Jan Zelenka, and dropping in on Mozart's opera of universal balance - yin and yang - with Papageno and Papagena from the Magic Flute.”
Track listing
- 0:06 – Hallelujah Junction (Part One)
- Performer Nicolas Hodges
- Performer Rolf Hind
- Composer John Adams
- 2:13 – Transylvanian Dances for orchestra (3rd mvt) (track 17, Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer)
- Composer Béla Bartók
- Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Conductor Iván Fischer
- Choir Magyar Rádió és Televízió énekkara
- 3:56 – Songs my mother taught me, Op 55 No 4 (track , Dvorak: Piano quintet/Piano quartet: Schubert Ensemble)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Ensemble The Schubert Ensemble
- 6:01 – Jesus Christ is risen, Op.74, No.3 (Jesus kristen er opfaren)
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- Performer Oslo Philharmonic Choir
- Conductor Stefan Sköld
- 8:58 – Sarabande pour Dulcinée (track 004, Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert)
- Composer Jacques Ibert
- Conductor Neeme Järvi
- Orchestra Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- 12:25 – Pa.. pa.. pa.. (The Magic Flute) (track , The Mastersinger: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Singer Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
- Singer Lisa Otto
- Conductor Karl Bohm
- 15:09 – Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffmann)
- Composer Jacques Offenbach
- Music Arranger Frankie Carle
- Ensemble Frankie Carle & His Sunrise Serenaders
- 17:35 – Rondeau (Abdelazar) (track 11, Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman)
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Conductor Roy Goodman
- Ensemble Brandenburg Consort
- 19:17 – Prelude (Le tombeau de Couperin) (track 1, Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Performer Steven Osborne
- 22:10 – Die Nacht (Wie schon bist du) D.983c
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Choir Baccholian Singers of London
- 24:29 – Trio sonata no.4 in G minor (2nd mvt) (track 10, Zelenka: Sonatas 1,3 & 4)
- Composer Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Ensemble Ensemble Zefiro