Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m000xg6q, broadcast at Friday 2nd July 2021, 7:00pm.
“In Tune's Classical Music Mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure. With music by Poulenc, Bach, Britten, Shostakovich and Handel”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Flute Sonata (1st mvt) (track 10, British Flute Concertos - Beynon/BBC NOW/Tovey)
- Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Composer Francis Poulenc
- Performer Emily Beynon
- Music Arranger Lennox Berkeley
- Conductor Bramwell Tovey
- 4:57 – Partita No 1 in B flat major for keyboard, BWV 825: Gigue (track 6, Igor Levit: Bach - Partitas)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Igor Levit
- 6:57 – Bells; Intonazione ottavo tono; Canzona No.13 a 12
- Ensemble Gabrieli Consort
- Director Paul McCreesh
- Composer Giovanni Gabrieli
- 11:15 – The Nutcracker Suite (Russian Dance, 'Trepak') (track 5, Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker Suite; Maazel, the Cleveland Orchestra)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra
- Conductor Lorin Maazel
- 12:22 – Arethusa (Six Metamorphoses after Ovid)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Performer Hansjörg Schellenberger
- 14:23 – The Indian Queen Z.630 (Overture; Trumpet Tune) (track 4-6, Purcell: The Indian Queen: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner)
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Ensemble English Baroque Soloists
- Composer Henry Purcell
- 18:47 – Prelude and Fugue in B major, Op 87 No 11 (Fugue) (track 2, Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva)
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Performer Tatiana Nikolayeva
- 21:20 – "Mi lusinga", from Alcina (track 5, Handel: Alcina)
- Ensemble City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Singer Della Jones
- Ensemble City of London Baroque Sinfonia