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The perfect classical half hour

Schubert songs with orchestra begin and end this Mixtape, which takes us through a piano version of a Bach aria, Michael Nyman's music for the film The Piano, Yo-Yo Ma playing a sea shanty, and Percy Grainger's sparkly Handel in the Strand.

Producer Roger Short.

30 minutes

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Fri 5 Jan 2024 19:00
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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    An Sylvia D.891

    Music Arranger: Alexander Schmalcz. Singer: Matthias Goerne. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Florian Donderer.
    • Schubert Revisited: Lieder Arranged for Baritone and Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air from Cantata BWV 36 transc Saint-Saens

    Performer: Nadejda Vlaeva.
    • Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Saint-Saens & Philipp: Nadejda Vlaeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Michael Nyman

    The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Theme from The Piano)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: JérÎme Ducros. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.
    • Emotions.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.

  • Trad.

    College Hornpipe

    Music Arranger: Mark O’Connor. Music Arranger: Edgar Meyer. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Mark O’Connor. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology: Ma/Meyer/O'Connor/Bell.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Geoffrey Tozer. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Grainger Edition Vol. 5 Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 016.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 295, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Martin Haselböck. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Alpha.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in B flat major, K 174 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Heinz-Otto Graf. Ensemble: Heutling-Quartett.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Alinde, D. 904 (Arr. Schmalcz for Baritone and Chamber Orchestra)

    Lyricist: Johann Friedrich Rochlitz. Music Arranger: Alexander Schmalcz. Singer: Matthias Goerne. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Florian Donderer.
    • The Most Beautiful Songs by Franz Schubert.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 55.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Jan 2024 19:00
    ±«Óătv Radio 3

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