Celebrating classical music by black composers and performers
Episode m000kpgk, broadcast at Tuesday 7th July 2020, 7:00pm.
“An eclectic playlist celebrating black composers and performers, including music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still and Errollyn Wallen.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Petite suite de concert Op.77: 3. Un sonnet d'amour (track 4, African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1)
- Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Orchestra Chicago Sinfonietta
- Conductor Paul Freeman
- 2:59 – Prelude (2nd mvt)
- Composer William Grant Still
- Performer Alexa Still
- Performer Michael Steer
- Performer Susan DeWitt Smith
- Ensemble New Zealand String Quartet
- 7:24 – Sonata No. 4 in E minor for solo violin (Finale) (track 12, Six Sonatas For Solo Violin Op. 27)
- Composer Eugène Ysaÿe
- Performer Tai Murray
- 10:42 – Reverie
- Composer Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer Leon Bosch
- Performer Sung-Suk Kang
- 14:26 – Photography (4th mvt)
- Composer Errollyn Wallen
- Orchestra Orchestra X
- Conductor Nicholas Kok
- 17:28 – Piano Concerto in A minor, op.7 (Romance)
- Performer Isata Kanneh-Mason
- Ensemble Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Clara Schumann
- Performer Jonathan Aasgaard
- Conductor Holly Mathieson
- 22:23 – Love Me or Leave Me
- Composer Walter Donaldson
- Performer Nina Simone
- 25:42 – Trumpet Concerto in E major (3rd mvt)
- Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra
- Performer Wynton Marsalis
- Composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Conductor Raymond Leppard