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In Tune's specially curated mixtape including Errolyn Wallen's ballet Horseplay and Albinoni's Adagio given a jazzy makeover by pianist Jacques Loussier.

In Tune’s specially curated mixtape including Errolyn Wallen's ballet Horseplay and Albinoni's Adagio given a jazzy makeover by pianist Jacques Loussier. Also featured are an elegant passacaille by Handel, Saint-Saens's sensual setting of Victor Hugo's poem "Ecstasy", Kodaly's brooding Intermezzo for Strings, a majestic Chorale Prelude on brass by Brahms and Offenbach's effervescent overture to his operetta La Vie Parisenne.

Producer: Ian Wallington

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 11 Jul 202219:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Lively (Horseplay)

    Ensemble: Continuum. Conductor: Philip Headlam.
    • Wallen: The Girl in my Alphabet.
    • AVIE.
    • 9.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Passacaille, Gigue and Menuet in G major........: 1st mvt; Passacaille

    Ensemble: Brook Street Band.
    • Avie.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Extase

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge. Director: Julien Chauvin.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor for organ and strings completed by Giazotto

    Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Intermezzo

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • HYPERION.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Chorale-Prelude 'Mein Jesu, der du mich', Op 122 arr Cox

    Composer: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    La vie parisienne (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 4 Nov 201919:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Mon 11 Jul 202219:00
    BBC Radio 3

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