Haunting vocals from Portishead’s Beth Gibbons
Episode m0009l0l, broadcast at Monday 6th June 2022, 7:00pm, and Thursday 24th October 2019, 7:00pm.
“The Portishead singer gives a poignant live performance in an excerpt from Gorecki's Symphony No 3 "Sorrowful Songs". There's also the B flat minor Prelude from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier by JS Bach and Schubert joins the honest arcadian labour of the Shepherd's Chorus from Rosamunde. And to begin, a cherubic Flos regalis viginalis performed by Trio Mediaeval, Jefferson Airplane's Embryonic Journey and the lovely warmth of the Intermezzo Op.118 No 2 by Brahms.”
Track listing
- 0:14 – Flos regalis
- Composer Anon.
- Ensemble Trio Mediæval
- 4:36 – Embryonic journey
- Composer Jorma Kaukonen
- Ensemble Jefferson Airplane
- 6:30 – 6 Pieces Op.118: Intermezzo in A major
- Performer Murray Perahia
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- 11:41 – Folias echa para mi Señora Dona Terlilla de Carellenos
- Composer Andrea Falconieri
- Ensemble L’Arpeggiata
- Director Christina Pluhar
- 15:56 – Symphony no. 3 Op.36 (Symphony of sorrowful songs): 2nd movement
- Composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
- Performer Beth Gibbons
- Orchestra Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Krzysztof Penderecki
- 21:45 – Prelude and fugue from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 22 in B flat minor
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Maurizio Pollini
- 24:46 – Rosamunde D.797: Chorus of shepherds (Hier auf den Fluren)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of Europe
- Choir Ernst Senff Choir