An Easter Celebration
Episode m000twb8, broadcast at Monday 5th April 2021, 7:00pm.
“A seasonal celebration featuring Bach's Easter Oratorio, Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture, Irving Berlin's Easter Parade, Haydn's Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross, Copland's setting of the Quaker Hymn - better know to us as Lord of the Dance and Mascagni's Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana. Producer: Ian Wallington”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Sinfonia (Easter Oratorio, BWV 249) (track 24, Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Conductor Roy Goodman
- Ensemble Brandenburg Consort
- 3:51 – Easter Sonata (3rd mvt)
- Composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- Performer Éric Heidsieck
- 8:10 – Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36
- Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Orchestra Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Vasily Petrenko
- 10:38 – Easter Parade (track 2, Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine – Sing The Best Of Irving Berlin)
- Composer Irving Berlin
- Singer Sarah Vaughan
- Orchestra Hal Mooney & His Orchestra
- Singer Billy Eckstine
- 13:50 – The Seven last words of our Saviour on the Cross H.20.1b (Sonata I, Largo) (track 2, Haydn: Die Sieben Letzten Worte)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble Casals Quartet
- 19:35 – Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Appalachian Spring)
- Conductor Nicholas Collon
- Orchestra Aurora Orchestra
- Composer Aaron Copland
- 22:34 – Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana (track 11, Famous Opera Choruses)
- Conductor Bernard Haitink
- Composer Pietro Mascagni
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Singer Helen Field
- Choir Chorus of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden