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Glinka, Arnalds, Purcell/Rees-Williams

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites from Glinka and Chopin, alongside lesser-known works by Arnalds and Birgisson. Plus Bill Evans at the piano, and an arrangement of Purcell by David Rees-Williams.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 2 Mar 2018 19:00

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • NEWTON.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Letters of a Traveller

    Performer: Ólafur Arnalds. Performer: Björk Óskarsdóttir. Performer: Viktor Orri Árnason. Performer: Porarinn Baldursson. Performer: Unnur Jónsdóttir. Performer: Hallgrímur Jónas Jensson.
    • MERCURY.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 No 2

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Chopin; Journal Intime.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 16.
  • Bill Evans

    Waltz for Debbie

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Conversations with Bill Evans.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Leos Janáček

    String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: David Hopper. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • French and Russian Orchestral Works: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 25.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido's Lament

    Music Arranger: David Rees-Williams. Ensemble: David Rees-Williams.
    • DePaean.

Broadcast

  • Fri 2 Mar 2018 19:00

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