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Wind down from the day with classical

Soprano Katharine Dain and pianist Sam Armstrong perform live in the studio and introduce us to their new release, Forget This Night, which includes the recording premiere of a work by Lili Boulanger. Vache Baroque Singers perform live music by Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances - series 1 (Op. 46); No.1 in C major

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tomáš Brauner.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Where Beauty Dwells, Op. 21 No. 7 (Arr. Wild)

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Rhapsody.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 27.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Attente; Elle etait descendue from 'Clairieres dans le ciel'

    Performer: Katharine Dain. Performer: Sam Armstrong.
  • John Rutter

    Blow, blow, thou winter wind (When icicles hang)

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.
  • Murray Gold

    I Am the Doctor (From "Doctor Who: Series 5")

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ben Foster. Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus.
    • Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 14.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Toccata Arpeggiata

    Performer: Jonatan Bougt.
  • Salamone Rossi

    Lamnatseach al hagidit (Psalm 8)

    Ensemble: Vache Baroque Singers.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major Op 77 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Mamidło

    Performer: Katharine Dain. Performer: Sam Armstrong.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: West Side Story - I. Prologue

    Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Bernstein: West Side Story.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Messiah)

    Singer: Lynne Dawson. Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Handel: Messiah: The Sixteen choir and orchestra/Christophers.
    • Hyperion.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 3.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.
    • Joplin: The Easy Winner & Other Rag-Time Music: Itzhak Perlman.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E minor Op.20

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Teldec.
  • Thomas Campion

    As by the streames of Babilon

    Ensemble: Vache Baroque Singers.
  • Salamone Rossi

    Mizmor letodah

    Ensemble: Vache Baroque Singers.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 103.
  • Francis Poulenc

    This is how you are (C'est ainsi que tu es') from Metamorphoses

    Performer: Katharine Dain. Performer: Sam Armstrong.
  • Salamone Rossi

    Sfogava con le stelle; Haskivenu Adonai

    Ensemble: Vache Baroque Singers.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Suite in G major - 1st mvt

    Performer: Timothy Chooi. Performer: Nikki Chooi. Performer: Clayton Stephenson.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Nov 202317:00

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