Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m001rr3w, broadcast at Thursday 2nd November 2023, 7:00pm.
“Two arrangements start tonight's Mixtape – J.S. Bach's 'Fuge a la gigue' in G Major, arranged for orchestra, followed by Alexander Tsfasman's Jazz Suite arranged for two pianos. Plus an overture for flute and strings by Susan Spain-Dunk, an octet by Schubert and Debbie Wiseman's music for the film 'Wild'. We finish with an Impromptu by Chopin. Producer: Kevin Satizabal Carrascal”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Fugue à la Gigue (track 11, Bach: Transcriptions for Orchestra: Leonard Slatkin)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Orchestrator Gustav Holst
- Conductor Leonard Slatkin
- 2:52 – Jazz Suite: Snowflakes (track 2, George Gershwin; Alexander Tsfasman: 2 Pianos)
- Performer Arthur Ancelle
- Composer Alexander Tsfasman
- Performer Ludmila Berlinskaya
- 6:13 – The Farmer's Boy
- Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Composer Susan Spain-Dunk
- Conductor Stephen Bell
- 12:58 – Octet in F Major, Op. Posth. 166, D. 803: III. Allegro vivace (track 103, Schubert: Octet in F Major, Op. Posth. 166, D. 803)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Ensemble Wigmore Soloists
- 19:22 – Wilde (track 001, Wilde: Original Soundtrack Recording)
- Conductor Debbie Wiseman
- Orchestra Uncredited orchestra
- 23:50 – Impromptu in F sharp major, Op 36 (track 28, Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy