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Episode m001210h, broadcast at Monday 29th November 2021, 7:00pm.
“Alison Balsom flies into space, and Richard Rodney Bennett goes up in his balloon in today's Mixtape flight of fancy; there are also two very different flavours of Russia as we go to church with Rachmaninov and to a dance with the high-spirited Osipov Russian State Folk Orchestra, plus Benjamin Britten invites us to consider someone very special. But before all that, Woody Guthrie would like to wish us a Happy Hanukkah.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Hanukkah Dance (track 27, Hard Travelin' - The Asch Recordings, Vol.3)
- Performer Woody Guthrie
- 0:55 – Lift thine eyes / He, watching over Israel (Elijah)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Singer Emily Rowley Jones
- Singer Lucy Ballard
- Singer Ruth Gibbins
- Choir Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir
- Ensemble Gabrieli Consort
- Conductor Paul McCreesh
- 4:17 – O Villanella (track 12, Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc.)
- Performer Jakob Lindberg
- Performer Nigel North
- Performer Paul O’Dette
- Performer Robert Meunier
- Singer Emily Van Evera
- Singer Rogers Covey‐Crump
- Singer Andrew King
- Composer Hubert Waelrant
- Singer Richard Windstreich
- 5:29 – Nunc dimittis (Vespers)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Choir Latvian Radio Choir
- Conductor Sigvards Kļava
- 8:40 – 3 Nocturnes Op.9 for piano: no.1 in B flat minor (track 1, Chopin: Nocturnes)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Maurizio Pollini
- 13:18 – Mayfair (London Again)
- Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Eric Coates
- Conductor John Wilson
- 18:23 – Space for trumpet, percussion and keyboards
- Performer Alison Balsom
- Composer Django Bates
- Performer Colin Currie
- 21:13 – Rejoice in the Lamb Op.30 (For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey) (track 2, Britten: Rejoice The Lamb, Hymn to St. Cecilia: Choir of St John's College, Camb)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Choir Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
- Conductor Christopher Robinson
- 23:24 – Travel Notes 1 In an air balloon (track 14, Richard Rodney Bennett - Chamber Music for Clarinet)
- Composer Richard Rodney Bennett
- Performer East Winds Ensemble
- 24:54 – Fantasy on Volga Melodies
- Composer Mikhailov‐Shalayev
- Orchestra Osipov Russian Folk Orchestra
- Conductor Vitaly Gnutov