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Stairway to Hell

The Devil has all the best tunes in today's In Tune Mixtape,. Featuring the Stairway to Hell, the Devil's trill, Mephisto's waltz, and a singing competition for the soul of a weary traveller, it includes music by Ligeti, Mussorgsky. Liszt, Mozart and Antonio Estevez.

30 minutes

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Thu 6 Dec 201819:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gyorgy Ligeti

    Etude No.13 ‘L'escalier du diable’

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 7559796219.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pesnya Mefistofelya o blokhe [Song of the flea] arr. for voice and orchestra

    Performer: Boris Christoff. Orchestra: French Radio National Orchestra. Conductor: Georges Tzipine.
    • EMI.
    • 682937 2.
    • 21.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto waltz no. 1 (S.514) transc. for piano [orig. for orchestra (S.110`2)]

    Performer: Van Cliburn.
    • RCA.
    • GD60417.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni - Opera In 2 Acts K.527, final scene

    Performer: Dimitri Tiliakos. Performer: Vito Priante. Performer: Mika Kares. Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.
    • 88985316032.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the bare mountain ed. Rimsky-Korsakov

    Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA.
    • 0902661958 2.
    • 17.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Sonata in G minor B.g5 (Devil's trill) for violin and continuo: Sogni ....

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Decca.
    • 476 4342.
    • 7.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orpheus and Euridice (Air des Furies)

    Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra.
    • Archiv.
    • 4795315.
    • 16.

  • Plainchant

    Dies irae

    Choir: Benedictine Nuns of Notre Dame.
    • Decc.
    • 2748264.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Estévez

    Cantata Criolla (finale)

    Performer: Idwer Alvarez. Performer: William Alvarado. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Schola Cantorum de Caracas. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.
    • Dorian.
    • DIS80101.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Dec 201819:00
    BBC Radio 3

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