The eclectic classical mix
Episode m001k1dz, broadcast at Wednesday 22nd March 2023, 7:00pm.
“Passion, pleasure and spiritual devotion sit side by side in tonight's Classical Mixtape, beginning with Uematsu's exhilarating depiction of a Great Battle in his music for the computer game Fantasian, dissolving into calming Portuguese Renaissance polyphony. A jaunty Brahms violin sonata scherzo takes you to a day at the races with a jazzed up account of the Ascot gavotte from My Fair Lady. Desire radiates from Stuart Skelton's performance of Charles Griffes's setting of Fiona McLeod's poem "Rose of the night", then J.S. Bach brings things down to earth, before the sequence ends with a joyous dance in the sunshine from Arnold Bax. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Music from FANTASIAN (Original Game Soundtrack); Great Battle (track 19, Nobuo Uematsu × Hironobu Sakaguchi Works ~ Music from FANTASIAN (Original Game S)
- Performer Nobuo Uematsu
- 1:34 – Panis Angelicus (track , Holy Week at the Chapel of the Dukes of Braganza)
- Conductor Owen Rees
- Composer João Lourenço Rebelo
- Choir A Capella Portuguesa
- 5:02 – Scherzo in C minor, WoO 2 (F.A.E. Sonata)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Performer Louis Lortie
- Performer Augustin Dumay
- 10:28 – Ascot Gavotte (My Fair Lady) (track 5, My Fair Lady - Shelly Manne and Friends)
- Performer André Previn
- Performer Shelly Manne
- Composer Frederick Loewe
- Performer Leroy Vinnegar
- 14:43 – The Rose of the Night (Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod)
- Singer Stuart Skelton
- Orchestra West Australian Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Asher Fisch
- Composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes
- 18:30 – Sonata no. 5 in C major BWV.529 for organ, I. Allegro
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble Palladian Ensemble
- 22:41 – 4 Orchestral Sketches (Dance in the Sun) (track 2, Bax: Orchestral Works)
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Conductor Andrew Davis
- Composer Arnold Bax