The eclectic classical mix
Episode m0017dtb, broadcast at Friday 27th May 2022, 7:00pm.
“The BBC Singers open this latest musical exploration with a piece by 19th-century French composer Augusta Holmes. Later we hear a spirited Galop by Delibes, a cathedral favourite by Stanford and a Cool Wind blowing from Armenia, as well as music by Chopin, Weber, Mozart and Gershwin.”
Track listing
- 0:12 – Fleur de Neflier
- Choir BBC Singers
- Composer Augusta Holmès
- Performer Annabel Thwaite
- Conductor Hilary Campbell
- 2:57 – Adagio in E major, K. 261 for violin and orchestra
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- Conductor Neville Marriner
- Performer Anne‐Sophie Mutter
- 9:53 – A Cool Wind Is Blowing (track 1, I Will Not be Sad in This World)
- Composer Traditional Armenian
- Performer Ջիվան Գասպարյան
- 13:49 – Nocturne in C sharp minor (track 10, Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Maria João Pires
- 17:42 – Galop Final (Coppélia)
- Conductor Neeme Järvi
- Composer Léo Delibes
- Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- 20:31 – 3 Motets (Op.38), no.3; Beati quorum via (track 4, A New Heaven: The Sixteen)
- Choir The Sixteen
- Director Harry Christophers
- Composer Charles Villiers Stanford
- 24:06 – Concertino in E flat major Op.26 (track 7, Weber: Clarinet Works: English Chamber Orchestra)
- Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra
- Performer Emma Johnson
- Conductor Sir Charles Groves
- Composer Carl Maria von Weber
- 26:26 – The man I love, concert arrangement (track 8, Great piano transcriptions: Geoffrey Saba)
- Composer George Gershwin
- Performer Geoffrey Saba