Verdi, Fado, Bach
Episode m00093cx, broadcast at Wednesday 25th May 2022, 7:00pm, and Thursday 10th October 2019, 7:00pm.
“The Moroccan-born singer Amina Alaoui sings Fado Al-Mu'tamid from her album Arco Iris. Before that we hear the fingers of pianist Nikolai Lugansky flying through Liszt's Feux-follets, and we start with tragedy in the form of the overture to Act 3 of Verdi's La Traviata. Some lively music for string quartet from Fanny Mendelssohn follows Amina Alaoui singing fado, then we sink into the darkness of Gesualdo's Tenebrae. Some upbeat Bach cleanses the palate, and we end in the bustling heart of Covent Garden, part of Eric Coates' London Suite from the 1930s.”
Track listing
- 0:01 – Die Vogel, D.691
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Performer Alexandre Tharaud
- Performer Jean‐Guihen Queyras
- 0:16 – La traviata Act 3; Prelude (track 4, Sony Classical : SBK63053)
- Composer Giuseppe Verdi
- Orchestra Columbia S O.
- Conductor Thomas Schippers
- 4:04 – Transcendental Study No 5 in B flat major, 'Feux-follets' (track 9, Naive: AM205)
- Composer Franz Liszt
- Performer Nikolai Lugansky
- 7:48 – Fado Al-Mu'tamid
- Composer Träd
- Singer Amina Alaoui
- 13:15 – String quartet in E flat major (2nd mvt) (track 6, Virgin Classics : 50999464546 2 1)
- Composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- Ensemble Quatuor Ébène
- 16:50 – Tenebrae factae sunt (track 14, ECM NEW SERIES : 843867-2)
- Ensemble The Hilliard Ensemble
- Composer Carlo Gesualdo
- 21:27 – Concerto in D minor for oboe, violin and strings, BWV 1060; 3rd mvt (track 6, EMI : 557091 2)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Performer Albrecht Mayer
- Performer Nigel Kennedy
- 24:37 – Covent Garden (London Suite) (track 7, CHANDOS : CHAN9869)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Conductor Rumon Gamba
- Composer Eric Coates