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30 minutes of classical inspiration

A cheeky waltz by Jacques Ibert starts a half hour journey of back to back classical music, including well-known favourites by Bach, Malcolm Arnold and Gershwin, and some lesser known gems by Debussy, Ravel, Kurt Weill and Joseph Rheinberger.

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 19 Sep 2023 19:00

Music Played

  • Jacques Ibert

    Valse (Divertissement)

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Bizet, Faure, Ibert, Ravel: CLS, Hickox.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Osvaldo Golijov

    Confesión (La Pasión según San Marcos)

    Orchestra: Orquesta La Pasión. Singer: Biella Da Costa. Singer: Jessica Rivera. Singer: Reynaldo González Fernández. Singer: Gioconda Cabrera. Singer: Manolo Mairena. Singer: Alex Alvear. Choir: Schola Cantorum de Venezuela. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: María Guinand.
    • La Pasion segun San Marcos, Osvaldo Golijov.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 1.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    4 English dances - set 2 Op.33 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No. 106 BWV.106 Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit: Sonatina

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.
    • JS Bach: Actus Tragicus.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.
  • Kurt Weill

    Lonely house (Street Scene)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Dawn Upshaw: The World So Wide.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 6.
  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie for piano

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
  • Josef Rheinberger

    Abenlied from 3 Geistliche Gesange Op.69 for chorus

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Director: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Conversations of Beauty and the Beast (Mother Goose)

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: Les Siècles.
    • Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 106.
  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Sep 2023 19:00

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