Lady Wang and the Wondrous Machine
Episode m0009508, broadcast at Friday 11th October 2019, 7:00pm.
“Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. The In Tune Mixtape is ready to read you a story of Lady Wang and the wondrous machine, the legend of the fires from the potato tops, both Shostakovich and Bach show us a Prelude, and there's Russian Jazz from Nicolai Kapustin.”
Track listing
- 0:11 – Dolly Suite (track 10-15, Faure: Orchestral works: BBC Philharmonic/Tortelier)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Gabriel Fauré
- Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
- Orchestrator Henri Rabaud
- 2:41 – Canzon No. 1 a 4, 'La spiritata'
- Composer Giovanni Gabrieli
- Ensemble Berlin Brass
- Conductor Lucas Vis
- 5:16 – Wang Zhao Jun (Lady Wang) (track 05, Kronos Quartet: Immeasurable Light/Wu Man)
- Composer Traditional Chinese
- Music Arranger Wu Man
- 7:15 – Legend of the Smoke from the Potato Fires (Songs of the Czech Highlands)H.360
- Composer Bohuslav Martinu
- Performer Ivana Grasic Antonic
- Performer Domagoj Pavlovic
- Performer Viktor Kircenkov
- Performer Tanja Bandalovic
- Performer Lana Genc
- Singer Ivana Garaj Korpar
- Singer Monica Cerovcec
- Singer Martina Gojčeta-Silić
- Singer Miroslav Zivkovic
- Singer Milan Miso Kravar
- Singer Vjekoslav Hudecek
- Choir Croatian Radio and Television Chorus
- Conductor Tonci Bilic
- 10:05 – Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Op 87 No 2
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Ensemble Calefax Reed Quintet
- 12:23 – On Wings of Song, Op 34 No 2 (track 1, 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Performer Daniel Hope
- Performer Sebastian Knauer
- 14:45 – My bonny boy (English Folk Song Suite orch Jacob) (track 11, Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto)
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Music Arranger Gordon Jacob
- Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor James Judd
- 17:55 – Toccatina, Op.36 (track 20, Kaleidoscope: Marc-Andre Hamelin)
- Composer Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
- Performer Marc-André Hamelin
- 20:43 – Wondrous machine (Hail! Bright Cecilia)
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Director Philippe Herreweghe
- Singer Peter Harvey
- Orchestra Collegium Vocale Orchestra
- 23:10 – Prelude in F minor, BWV 857 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier) (track 23, J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1: Maurizio Pollini)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Maurizio Pollini
- 25:06 – Symphony No 6 in D major, Op 60 (4th mvt)
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Conductor Marin Alsop
- Orchestra Baltimore Symphony Orchestra