30 minutes of Classical Inspiration
Episode m0013hzx, broadcast at Monday 17th January 2022, 7:00pm.
“This evening, after a swooning sigh, Felix Mendelssohn and Alberic Magnard appear in symphonic guise, that master of tricks and wheezes Till Eulenspiegel travels by an ash grove courtesy of Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten, and we trip lightly with Leo Delibes’ Sylvia before crocodiles, ostriches and hippos dance away the hours with Amicare Ponchielli. Producer: Richard Denison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Un Sospiro (3 Concert studies)
- Composer Franz Liszt
- Performer Jorge Bolet
- 9:06 – Symphony No 3 in B flat minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt) (track 2, Magnard: The Four Symphonies)
- Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Albéric Magnard
- Conductor Jean-Yves Ossonce
- 15:07 – Till Eulengspiegel einmal anders
- Composer Richard Strauss
- Music Arranger Franz Hasenöhrl
- Ensemble Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chamber Soloists
- 23:46 – The Ash Grove (track 6, Britten: Folk Song Arrangements)
- Composer Trad.
- Music Arranger Benjamin Britten
- Performer Graham Johnson
- Singer Philip Langridge
- 26:10 – Pizzicato (Sylvia) (track 5, Delibes: Sylvia & Coppelia: LSO/Fistoulari/Minneapolis SO/Dorati)
- Composer Léo Delibes
- Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Anatole Fistoulari
- 28:11 – Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda) (track 15, Intermezzo: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi)
- Orchestra Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Neeme Järvi
- Composer Amilcare Ponchielli