30 minutes of classical inspiration
Episode m001qfsd, broadcast at Tuesday 19th September 2023, 7:00pm.
“A cheeky waltz by Jacques Ibert starts a half hour journey of back to back classical music, including well-known favourites by Bach, Malcolm Arnold and Gershwin, and some lesser known gems by Debussy, Ravel, Kurt Weill and Joseph Rheinberger. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Valse (Divertissement) (track , Bizet, Faure, Ibert, Ravel: CLS, Hickox)
- Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor Richard Hickox
- Composer Jacques Ibert
- 2:43 – Confesión (La Pasión según San Marcos) (track 1, La Pasion segun San Marcos, Osvaldo Golijov)
- Orchestra Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Osvaldo Golijov
- Orchestra Orquesta La Pasión
- Singer Biella Da Costa
- Singer Jessica Rivera
- Singer Gioconda Cabrera
- Singer Manolo Mairena
- Singer Alex Alvear
- Choir Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
- Conductor María Guinand
- Singer Reynaldo Gonzalez Fernandez
- 5:06 – Four English Dances, Set 2, Op 33 (No 1) (track 5, Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson)
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor Bryden Thomson
- Composer Malcolm Arnold
- Performer Hugh Bean
- 8:14 – Cantata No. 106 BWV.106 Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit: Sonatina (track 1, JS Bach: Actus Tragicus)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble Vox Luminis
- Conductor Lionel Meunier
- 11:02 – Lonely house (Street Scene) (track 6, Dawn Upshaw: The World So Wide)
- Singer Dawn Upshaw
- Conductor David Zinman
- Composer Kurt Weill
- Orchestra Orchestra of St. Luke’s
- 14:42 – Reverie
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Performer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- 18:49 – Abenlied from 3 Geistliche Gesange Op.69 for chorus
- Director Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Choir Monteverdi Choir
- Composer Josef Rheinberger
- 22:19 – Conversation of Beauty and the Beast (Mother Goose) (track 106, Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie)
- Composer Maurice Ravel
- Orchestra Les Siècles
- Conductor François‐Xavier Roth
- 26:24 – Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance) (track 8, Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas)
- Composer George Gershwin
- Performer Michael Tilson Thomas
- Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic