The eclectic classical mix
Episode m000yfps, broadcast at Thursday 5th August 2021, 7:00pm.
“Included in the eclectic musical mix are classical favourites from Rachmaninov, Bartok and Britten, one of Handel's most beautiful arias, a jazz classic from Duke Ellington, traditional music from Venezuela and a beautiful motet by Felix Anerio. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:04 – Romanian Folk Dances (track 8, Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer)
- Composer Béla Bartók
- Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Conductor Iván Fischer
- 1:27 – El Castillo (The Castle) (track 11, Urupampa)
- Composer Traditional Venezuelan
- Ensemble Rumillajta
- 4:01 – The trees they grow so high (track 10, Britten: Canticle 1/Michelangelo sonnets etc: Johnson/Johnson)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Performer Graham Johnson
- Singer Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 7:34 – Études-tableaux, Op 39 (No 8 in D minor) (track 11, Freddy Kempf plays Rachmaninov)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Performer Freddy Kempf
- 11:35 – I'm beginning to see the light
- Composer Duke Ellington
- Performer Wynton Marsalis
- Performer Cyrus Chestnut
- Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater
- Singer Ian Coleman
- Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- Conductor John Mauceri
- 16:35 – Christus factus est (track , In The Dark: Platinum Consort, Scott Inglis-Kidger)
- Choir Platinum Consort
- Composer Felice Anerio
- Singer Emma Walshe
- Singer Zoe Brown
- Singer Raffaele Pé
- Singer Simon Ponsford
- Singer Oliver Jones
- Singer Michael Solomon Williams
- Singer Timothy Murphy
- Singer Nick Ashby
- Conductor Scott Inglis-Kidger
- 18:56 – Murder on the Orient Express - Overture
- Composer Richard Rodney Bennett
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Conductor Marcus Dods
- 21:05 – Ode for St Cecilia's day; What passion cannot music raise and quell! (Air)
- Singer Carolyn Sampson
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Dunedin Consort
- Conductor John Butt