Music for the moment
Episode m001bzgh, broadcast at Monday 19th September 2022, 7:00pm.
“A sequence of pieces with links to British royalty down the ages, including musical tributes to the first Queen Elizabeth of England; a serenade celebrating the ‘New Elizabethan Age’ in 1952; a lullaby from Arnold Bax, Queen Elizabeth’s first Master of the Queen’s Music; Beethoven’s exuberant variations on God Save the King; and a piece by Queen Victoria’s favourite, Felix Mendelssohn.”
Track listing
- 1:54 – March from Queen Mary's Funeral Music Z.860 for trumpets and trombones
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Ensemble Baroque Brass of London
- 3:58 – String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13 (2nd mvt)
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble Emerson String Quartet
- 11:50 – Seven Variations in C major on 'God save the King', WoO 78 (track 7, Beethoven: Variations: Cedric Tiberghien)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer Cédric Tiberghien
- 19:42 – Elizabethan Serenade (track 15, Elizabethan Serenade)
- Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Ronald Binge
- Conductor Ernest Tomlinson
- 23:11 – Lullaby for piano (track , Arnold Bax: Piano music volume 1: Eric Parkin)
- Composer Arnold Bax
- Performer Eric Parkin
- 27:03 – The Lady Oriana for 6 voices [from "The triumphs of Oriana", 1601]
- Composer John Wilbye
- Director Robert Hollingworth
- Ensemble I Fagiolini
- Performer David Miller