Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Classical Mixtape
Episode m001kvw0, broadcast at Thursday 20th April 2023, 7:00pm.
“A sequence of music specially curated by the conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner on his 80th birthday. He chooses an eclectic range of music including composers and recordings he particularly admires, such as Bach, Rameau and Schumann, as well as some jazz, and a song from the famous Lebanese singer Fairuz.”
Track listing
- 1:36 – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (track 2, Bernstein: West Side Story: New York Philharmonic, Berstein)
- Conductor Leonard Bernstein
- Orchestra New York Philharmonic
- Orchestrator Irwin Kostal
- Orchestrator Sid Ramin
- 3:40 – Liebeslieder-Walzer, op. 52: Wie des Abends schöne Röte (track 4, Romantic Songs by Mahler, Brahms, Strauss -Vol.3)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Performer Nadia Boulanger
- Performer Dinu Lipatti
- Singer Marie-Blanche de Polignac
- Singer Irène Kedroff
- 4:18 – Castor et Pollux (Overture)
- Composer Jean‐Philippe Rameau
- Ensemble Ensemble Pygmalion
- Conductor Raphaël Pichon
- 8:39 – O Maria vernans rosa (track 18, Pilgrimage to Santiago: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner)
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Composer Jacobus Clemens non Papa
- 14:21 – Ya Helou Ya Amar (track , Reminiscing with Fairuz)
- Performer Fairuz
- 16:35 – What pow'r art thou (King Arthur) (track 18, Purcell - King Arthur)
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Orchestra English Baroque Soloists
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Singer Stephen Varcoe
- 19:26 – Fontessa: Fontessa (track 21, Four Classic Albums (The Modern Jazz Quartet / Django / Fontessa / The Modern Ja)
- Performer The Modern Jazz Quartet
- 21:48 – Das Paradies und die Peri / Part Two (track 49, Schumann: Complete Symphonies; Das Paradies und die Peri)
- Composer Robert Schumann
- Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Orchestra Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Singer Barbara Bonney
- 25:46 – Cello Suite No 3 in C major, BWV 1009 (Sarabande) (track 10, Resonus Classics RES10147)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer David Watkin