Classical music to fill half an hour
Episode m000bwzt, broadcast at Tuesday 3rd December 2019, 7:00pm.
“Gather round the hearth for Bella Hardy's fireside tale from the Peak District and the perennial mystery of what exactly were Couperin's barricades. There's also an extract from a New York street scene by Glen Branca student and Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, two of Berio's folky songs, and a punchy African Dance by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Then a glowing work by Renaissance Augustinian nun Sulpitia Cesis, and to open, Chopin's elusive Mazurka in B flat minor.”
Track listing
- 1:35 – Mazurka in B flat minor, Op 24 No 4 (track 17, Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy
- 6:07 – 8 Spring Street (excerpt) (track 1, Spirit Counsel)
- Performer Thurston Moore
- 10:26 – Les baricades misterieuses
- Conductor Thomas Adès
- Composer François Couperin
- Ensemble The Composers Ensemble
- 13:02 – Lo fiolaire (Folk Songs, No 10) (track 011, Formazioni / Folk Songs / Sinfonia)
- Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Performer Luciano Berio
- Singer Jard van Nes
- 15:53 – Azerbaijan Love Song (Folk Songs) (track 20, Berio: Recital I for Cathy, Folk Songs: Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio)
- Conductor Luciano Berio
- Singer Cathy Berberian
- Ensemble Julliard Ensemble
- 18:28 – 4 African dances, Op.58 - no.3, Allegro con brio (track 7, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music)
- Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Performer John Fadial
- Performer Andrew Harley
- 22:35 – Io so ferito si
- Composer Sulpitia Cesis
- Director Candace Smith
- Ensemble Cappella Artemisia
- 26:02 – The Drunken Butcher of Tideswell (track 5, The Dark Peak and the White)
- Composer Traditional English
- Performer Bella Hardy