Classical music to welcome the Spring
Episode m000t5wh, broadcast at Thursday 21st March 2024, 7:00pm, and Tuesday 16th March 2021, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music and sounds evoking the coming spring. Tonight's mix looks forward to warmer climes and wildflower meadows with music from Grieg, Ravel and legendary folksinger Peggy Seeger. Plus an air for daffodils by Scottish baroque composer James Oswald, and music for shepherds by Debussy and Alfvén. Producer: Elana Solomon”
Track listing
- 0:17 – Daphnis et Chloe (Lever du jour)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Conductor Bernard Haitink
- Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- 5:41 – Sunshimmers (track 3, Rivers And Streams)
- Performer Lubomyr Melnyk
- 8:36 – The Bee
- Director Nigel Short
- Composer Frank Bridge
- Choir Tenebrae
- 9:41 – The Wildflower Meadow (Highgrove Suite) (track 2, Patrick Hawes, Highgrove Suite: Claire Jones, Philharmonia Orchestra)
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor Patrick Hawes
- Performer Claire Jones
- 15:32 – Airs for the Seasons (Spring: Narcissus) (track , Colin's Kisses - The music of James Oswald)
- Composer James Oswald
- Ensemble Concerto Caledonia
- Director David McGuinness
- 16:32 – So Early, Early In The Spring
- Performer Peggy Seeger
- 19:55 – The Little Shepherd (Children's Corner) (track 7, Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski)
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Simon Trpceski
- 22:10 – The Mountain King, Op 37 (Shepherd Girl's Dance) (track 6, Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen)
- Orchestra Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Esa‐Pekka Salonen
- Composer Hugo Alfvén
- 26:03 – Spring Op.33 no.6 (track 401, To the Spring)
- Composer Edvard Grieg
- Music Arranger Elena Urioste
- Music Arranger Tom Poster