The perfect classical half hour
Episode m000k28y, broadcast at Monday 15th June 2020, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's specially curated playlist, including JS Bach's extraordinary First Brandenburg Concerto, a vision of a better world with Burl Ives, and Stravinsky's sardonic Devil from The Soldier's Tale. Opening with the tinkling rivulets of Rachmaninov's Twelfth Prelude from his Op 32, there's also the chimes and tiptoes of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, an intoxicating Sayat-Nova from Armenia and the bonkers player piano work of Conlan Nancarrow. And there's Jessica Curry's pastoral score to Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, before the dancing final movement of Dvorak's breakthrough Bagatelles.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – 13 Preludes Op.32: no.12 in G sharp minor
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Jorge Bolet
- 2:51 – Brandenburg concerto no. 1 in F major BWV.1046: Allegro
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble Academy for Ancient Music Berlin
- 6:56 – Big Rock Candy Mountain (track 5, Lavender Blue)
- Performer Burl Ives
- 9:37 – La Gioconda: Dance of the hours
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Conductor Neville Marriner
- Composer Amilcare Ponchielli
- 14:36 – Kani vur djan im
- Ensemble Hespèrion XXI
- Composer Sayat-Nova
- Performer Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian
- 18:31 – Trilogy: III
- Performer Conlon Nancarrow
- 20:25 – Everybody's gone to the rapture: The Light we cast
- Composer Jessica Curry
- Choir London Voices
- Conductor Ben Parry
- 23:36 – Bagatelles Op.47
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Ensemble Takács Quartet
- 28:01 – The Soldier's tale: The Devil's triumphal march
- Composer Igor Stravinsky
- Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra
- Conductor Pierre Boulez