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The classical soundtrack for your evening

Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen, who plays live in the studio and talks about her new recording of Tudor keyboard music adapted for the modern piano.

Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen, who plays live in the studio and talks about her new recording of Tudor keyboard music adapted for the modern piano. Composer Daniel Whibley also talks to Sean about his latest project with the BBC Philharmonic: 'Fantastic Fairy Tales', aimed at bringing music to special schools across the UK.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • New Year's Concert 2012.
    • Sony.
    • 4.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Times Square (On the Town)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in E major, BWV.1042 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - J.S. Bach violin concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.
  • William Byrd

    Callino Casturame

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A major, Op 41 No 3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Symfonický orchestr hlavního města Prahy FOK. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • Dvorak: New World Symphony: Prague Symphony Orchestra/Pesek.
    • Sony.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Pieces de clavecin; Suite in E; Le rappel des oiseaux

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Pieces de clavecin; Suite in E; Rigaudons I, II & Double

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Pieces de clavecin; Suite in D; Les Tendres Plaints

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
  • Moses Hogan

    Elijah Rock

    Choir: Plymouth Music Series Ensemble Singers. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Vangelis

    Chariots of Fire (theme)

    Music Arranger: Vangelis. Performer: Vangelis.
    • Chariots of Fire: Vangelis.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 4 'La Spiritata' [1608 no.1]

    Ensemble: Berlin Brass. Conductor: Lucas Vis.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La traviata: Act I: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Brindisi)

    Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Tiziana Fabbricini. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan.
    • Verdi: La Traviata.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • William Byrd

    Pavana Lachrymae

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Men of Sherwood Forest (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Dutton.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in C major, K.373

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Sir James MacMillan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Paul Harvey

    Four Notes - Paul's Tune

    Composer: Daniel Whibley. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Harvey.
    • Four Notes - Paul's Tune.
    • Redrocca.
    • 1.
  • Daniel Whibley

    The Bear and the Piano

    Performer: Daniel Whibley.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato-Polka

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.
    • The Strauss Album: Christopher Warren Green.
    • White Line.
    • 14.
  • Herbert Murrill

    Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in E: Magnificat

    Performer: George Herbert. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Magnificat 4.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 115.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8: OAE, Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    7 Bagatelles, Op.33 (no.2)

    • Beethoven: Fur Elise, Bagatelles Opp. 33, 119 & 126.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.

Broadcast

  • Thu 4 Jul 202417:00

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