The Orpheus myth
Episode m000c4m9, broadcast at Tuesday 10th December 2019, 7:00pm.
“Music inspired by the Orpheus myth. We start with the Can-Can from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Carnival Morning by the Brazilian composer Luiz Bonfa, the theme from the film Black Orpheus leads to Johann Johannsson's Orphic Hymn from his album Orphee. We hear part of David Sylvian's Orpheus from his album Secrets of the Beehive. Next, the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 4, which has been seen as a description of Orpheus taming the Furies. We end with two songs, Schubert's Lied des Orpheus D474 and Gluck's Che faro senza Euridice from his opera Orfeo ed Euridice. These are separated by a Toccata from Monteverdi's Orfeo.”
Track listing
- 0:04 – Can-Can (Orpheus in the Underworld) (track , William Tell and other favourites: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Kunzel)
- Composer Jacques Offenbach
- Conductor Erich Kunzel
- Orchestra Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
- 2:16 – Manhã de Carnaval
- Performer Andreas Ottensamer
- Performer Daniel Ottensamer
- Performer Ernst Ottensamer
- Composer Luiz Bonfá
- Performer František Jánoška
- 7:47 – Orphic Hymn
- Conductor Paul Hillier
- Ensemble Theatre of Voices
- Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson
- 11:10 – Orpheus
- Singer David Sylvian
- 13:41 – Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 (2nd mvt) (track 2, Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists)
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer Emil Grigoryevich Gilels
- Performer David Oistrakh
- Performer Sviatoslav Knushevistsky
- Conductor Leopold Ludwig
- 19:06 – Lied des Orpheus D474
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Performer Graham Johnson
- Singer Brigitte Fassbaender
- 23:35 – L'Orfeo (Toccata)
- Composer Claudio Monteverdi
- Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Ensemble Concerto Italiano
- 25:29 – Orfeo ed Euridice; Che faro senza Euridice
- Singer Philippe Jaroussky
- Director Diego Fasolis
- Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Ensemble I Barocchisti