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Live music from the Nocturnalia Ensemble

And Katie visits the Royal Ballet to learn about immersive audio description in dance.

Katie Derham introduces live music from the Nocturnalia Ensemble ahead of their concert at the Foundling Museum.

On World Ballet day, Katie visits the Royal Ballet and chats to blind artist Devon Healey and Robert Binet about a new work using immersive audio description to make dance more accessible.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 815: I. Allemande

    Performer: David Fray.
    • Bach, JS: French Suite No. 4, BWV 815: I. Allemande.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Nitin Sawhney

    River Pulse

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah.
    • Traces of you.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • John Playford

    Paul Steeple from The Dancing Master (part 2)

    Ensemble: Nocturnalia Ensemble.
  • William Viner

    Violin Sonata No. 3: Grave

    Ensemble: Nocturnalia Ensemble.
  • Fats Waller

    Ain't Misbehavin'

    Composer: Harry Brooks. Composer: Andy Razaf. Performer: Fats Waller.
    • Stormy Weather (The Soundtrack Factory).
    • Disconforme.
    • 8.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malin Broman.
    • Johan Dalene plays Mendelssohn, Bruch and Vaughan Williams.
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon per sonar a 4 [1608]

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • DECCA.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Sonata, Op.1 No.12 - 1: Adagio

    Ensemble: Nocturnalia Ensemble.
  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER.
  • Joby Talbot

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Suite: IX. The Flower Garden Part II

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Austin.
    • Talbot: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Fool's Paradise.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 109.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tine Thing Helseth.
    • SIMAX.
    • 3.
  • Matthew Locke

    Suite for Several Friends: Ayre, Courante, Sarabande

    Ensemble: Nocturnalia Ensemble.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Ferdinand Hérold

    La fille mal gardée: Pas de deux

    Music Arranger: John Lanchbery. Conductor: John Lanchbery. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
    • Hérold: La fille mal gardée; LeCocq: Mam'zelle Angot.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato-Polka

    Composer: Josef Strauss. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Johann Strauss II Waltzes, Polkas and Marches.
    • Apex.
    • 7.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Director: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans.
    • Sony.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.40 in G minor K.550 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphonies 38 - 41 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charle.
    • Linn.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    She's like the swallow that flies so high (8 Folksongs)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Benjamin Britten, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake: Gerald Finley and Julius.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka - Russian Dance

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Stravinsky: Petrushka / Orpheus.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 002.

Broadcast

  • Wed 12 Nov 202517:00

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