Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m001khdk, broadcast at Thursday 6th April 2023, 7:00pm.
“Glenn Miller's lively take on Italian opera is set against the real thing, and while we're in Italy, we hear some red-hot ardour from Monteverdi, and some gentle shepherding from Sardinia's Tenores di Bitti. Travelling via Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, we come to a serene finale with the first of Mahler's Ruckert-Lieder.”
Track listing
- 0:01 – Sinfonia TWV 50:1 in G major 'Grillen-Symphonie' - mov. 3 Presto
- Composer Georg Philipp Telemann
- Performer Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
- Conductor Gottfried von der Goltz
- 2:22 – Anvil Chorus (track 5, Army Air Force Band)
- Composer Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band
- 6:12 – Di si felice innesto (The Barber of Seville, Finale Act 2)
- Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Gioachino Rossini
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- Singer Teresa Berganza
- Singer Luigi Alva
- Singer Hermann Prey
- 8:26 – Ardo, avvampo (Madrigals, Book 8) (track 2, Monteverdi: Fire & Ashes: I Fagiolini)
- Composer Claudio Monteverdi
- Director Robert Hollingworth
- Orchestra I Fagiolini
- 12:07 – Cantu A Ballu Seriu (track 6, One Voice: Vocal Music From Around The World)
- Performer Tenores di Bitti Remunnu ’e Locu
- 16:03 – Piano Sonata in D major Op.28 'Pastorale' (4th mvt) (track 4, Jonathan Biss: Beethoven)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer Jonathan Biss
- 20:53 – Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 (3rd mvt)
- Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Conductor Paavo Järvi
- Orchestra Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
- 26:46 – Ich atmet' einen linden Duft (Rückert-Lieder) (track 17, Love and Longing - Ravel; Dvorak; Mahler)
- Conductor Sir Simon Rattle
- Composer Gustav Mahler
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Singer Magdalena Kožená