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Wind down from work with classical music

Sean Rafferty in conversation with composer Eric Whitacre, plus live performance from members of Vache Baroque.

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Tue 3 Sep 202417:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 8 in G major, 'Le Soir' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Opera Intermezzi and Balle Music: Berlin Phil/Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Marche troyenne (arrangement pour les concerts des Troyens) H133b (1864)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Frémaux.
    • Hector Berlioz: The Complete Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 009.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Mentre dormi Amor fomenti (from 'L'Olimpiade')

    Performer: Aoife Miskelly. Ensemble: Vache Baroque.

  • Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

    Piano Quintet in G minor Op.30 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Spectrum Concerts Berlin.
    • Naxos.

  • George Butterworth

    A Shropshire Lad

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Flowers of the Field.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Se cerca (from 'L'Olimpiade')

    Performer: Natasha Page. Ensemble: Vache Baroque.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance (Gayane)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.

  • Cole Porter

    Kiss me Kate (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John McGlinn.
    • EMI.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Nella fatal mia sorte (from 'L'Olimpiade')

    Performer: Aoife Miskelly. Ensemble: Vache Baroque.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Ensemble: Helios Trio.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Sunday Morning (4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Britten: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra; Bournemouth Symph, Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 35.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Orpheus in the Underworld: Cancan

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Summer Night Concert 2016.
    • Sony.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 19 (3rd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Weber: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Orfeo.
    • 3.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Eternity in an Hour

    Performer: Lesjamusic. Performer: Christopher Glynn. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Little birds

    Performer: Leslie De’Ath. Choir: Elora Festival Singers. Conductor: Noel Edison.
    • Eric Whitacre, Choral Music: Elora Festival Singers.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Orchestrator: Jim Clements. Choir: VOCES8 Foundation Choir. Orchestra: VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • Voces8.

  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country (Main theme)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tony Bremner.
    • The Big Country.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in A major Op.46 no.5

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DECCA ELOQUENCE.

Broadcast

  • Tue 3 Sep 202417:00
    BBC Radio 3

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