Souls and Celebrations
Episode m0009syd, broadcast at Friday 1st November 2019, 7:00pm.
“Reflecting the season of All Saints and All Souls, the In Tune mixtape weaves its unbroken way through ravishing requiems and languid laments by Maurice Durufle and Frank Bridge, mixed with joyous bursts celebrating life in dances from Malcolm Arnold and Aram Khachaturian. The struggle and fragility of existence flutters into view in Ravel's depiction of moths and Scott Joplin's rag "The Strenuous Life", and in the haunting score to the film American Beauty. But the sequence ends optimistically with Harold Arlen's show stopper "Get Happy", as we all travel together to the Promised Land. Producer Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:41 – Four English Dances, Set 2, Op 33 (No 2) (track 6, Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold)
- Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Malcolm Arnold
- 2:00 – Requiem, Op.9 (In Paradisum) (track 109, Duruflé: Requiem - Respighi: Concerto gregoriano)
- Composer Maurice Duruflé
- Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra
- Choir Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir
- Conductor Ivan Repušić
- 4:50 – Noctuelles (Miroirs) (track 7, Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Performer Steven Osborne
- 9:35 – Lezghinka (Gayane) (track 7, Khachaturian: Spartacus/Gayaneh: Wiener Philharmoniker/Khachaturian)
- Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic
- Conductor Aram Khachaturian
- 12:09 – Lament for strings (track 4, Orchestral Works, Vol.4)
- Composer Frank Bridge
- Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- 17:23 – Still Dead (American Beauty)
- Director Thomas Newman
- 19:53 – The Strenuous life (track 009, Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904)
- Composer Scott Joplin
- Performer Dick Hyman
- 23:33 – Homo fugit velut umbra (Passacaglia della Vita) (track 1, Landi: "Homo fugit velut umbra...")
- Ensemble L’Arpeggiata
- Director Christina Pluhar
- Composer Anonymous
- 27:39 – Get Happy (Summer Stock) (track 4, The Best Of The John Wilson Orchestra)
- Conductor John Wilson
- Composer Harold Arlen
- Orchestra John Wilson Orchestra
- Composer Ted Koehler
- Singer Kim Criswell