The eclectic classical mix
Episode m0015lh6, broadcast at Friday 1st April 2022, 7:00pm.
“There's music by Haydn and Dvorak today, Orlando Gibbons laments the outnumbering of the wise by fools in his Silver Swan and two of Mozart's daftest opera characters find each other and live happily ever after.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Maenads (Spring Fire) (track 5, Bax: Spring Fire etc.: RPO / Handley)
- Composer Arnold Bax
- Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Vernon Handley
- 7:39 – The Silver Swan
- Conductor John Rutter
- Choir The Cambridge Singers
- Composer Orlando Gibbons
- 9:26 – String Quartet in E flat major, Op 20 No 1 (2nd mvt) (track 2, Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 - Doric String Quartet)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble Doric String Quartet
- 13:08 – Trumpet Sextet in E flat minor (3rd mvt, Allegro con spirito)
- Composer Oskar Böhme
- Ensemble Prince Regent's Band
- 17:13 – Mazurek in E minor, Op 49, arr. for violin and orchestra (track 5, Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Romance; Mazurek; Humoresque)
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Antonín Dvořák
- Performer Anne‐Sophie Mutter
- Conductor Manfred Honeck
- 22:56 – Sonata in G major H.16.39 for piano; 3rd movement; Prestissimo
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Performer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- 27:03 – The Magic Flute (Pa... pa... pa...)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Conductor Nicholas McGegan
- Singer Inger Dam-Jensen
- Singer François Le Roux