Take 30 minutes out with an invigorating classical mix
Episode m000c2ln, broadcast at Friday 6th December 2019, 7:00pm.
“In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music celebrating trains, cars and all things that go. Includes Richard Rodney Bennett's lilting 'Travel Notes' for wind quartet, Henry Mancini's Pie in The Face Polka from the 1965 film The Great Race, John Williams' Scherzo for Motorcyle and Orchestra and evocations of trains by Max Steiner, Benjamin Britten and Steve Reich.”
Track listing
- 0:28 – Travel Notes 1 In an air balloon (track 14, Richard Rodney Bennett - Chamber Music for Clarinet)
- Composer Richard Rodney Bennett
- Performer East Winds Ensemble
- 1:58 – Short Ride in a Fast Machine (track , Simon Rattle on EMI Classics)
- Conductor Sir Simon Rattle
- Composer John Adams
- Orchestra City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- 6:13 – Travel Notes 2 In a helicopter (track 15, Richard Rodney Bennett - Chamber Music for Clarinet)
- Composer Richard Rodney Bennett
- Performer East Winds Ensemble
- 7:25 – King Kong (1933): Elevated Train Sequence (track 20, King Kong: The Complete 1933 Film Score)
- Orchestra The Moscow Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Max Steiner
- Conductor William T. Stromberg
- 9:23 – Car Horn Prelude (Le grand macabre)
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor Esa‐Pekka Salonen
- Composer György Ligeti
- 10:17 – Pie in the Face Polka (The Great Race) (track , The music of Henry Mancini: Richard Hayman and his orchestra)
- Conductor Richard Hayman
- Composer Henry Mancini
- Orchestra Studio Orchestra
- 12:51 – Travel Notes 3 In a Bath Chair (track 16, Richard Rodney Bennett - Chamber Music for Clarinet)
- Composer Richard Rodney Bennett
- Performer East Winds Ensemble
- 15:00 – Night mail
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Conductor Martyn Brabbins
- Ensemble Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
- Narrator Simon Russell Beale
- 19:04 – Different Trains (America, Before the War)
- Composer Steve Reich
- Ensemble Kronos Quartet
- 23:59 – Travel Notes 4 Car Chase (track 17, Richard Rodney Bennett - Chamber Music for Clarinet)
- Composer Richard Rodney Bennett
- Performer East Winds Ensemble
- 25:13 – Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra (track 12, The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration)
- Orchestra Boston Pops Orchestra
- Conductor John Williams
- 27:58 – The Chain (track 1, Rumours (Remastered))
- Performer Fleetwood Mac
- 29:07 – Jam (track 15, Kat's Karavan: The History Of John Peel On The Radio)
- Performer Ivor Cutler