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Ease into your evening with classical music

Sean Rafferty celebrates the Day of Dance on Radio 3 with live flamenco music and dancing in the studio from City Academy artists ahead of their Ascendance showcase at Sadler's Wells, plus an interview with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.

2 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Fri 8 Nov 2024 17:00

Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso in D minor, H.143 'La Folia': Theme & Variations 1-7

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Ensemble: Benedetti Baroque Orchestra.
    • Baroque.
    • Decca.
  • Simon Jeffes

    Air à danser ('Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe)

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • DECCA.
  • Rafael Medina

    Media Luna de Noche (Sevillanas)

    Performer: Carlos de Luisa. Performer: Tito Heredia. Performer: Ago Hernandez. Performer: Carlos Quintana.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Grande valse brillante Op.18

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Chopin - Complete Waltzes (Alice Sara Ott).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 001.
  • Adolphe Adam

    Giselle, Act II: Apparition de Myrthe et evocation magique

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Adam, A.: Giselle [Ballet].
    • Capriccio.
    • 12.
  • Tito Heredia

    Bulerias

    Performer: Tito Heredia. Performer: Carlos Quintana. Performer: Carlos de Luisa.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Forlana (5 Bagatelles, Op 23)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No 6 in E major, BWV 817 (Courante)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • J.S.Bach: The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Kiko Veneno

    Volando Voy

    Performer: Tito Heredia. Performer: Ago Hernandez.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Gavotte - Musette (Holberg Suite, Op.40)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Arthur Wood

    Barwick Green (from My Native Heath - suite)

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 19.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 (No 1, Strathspey)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • B.C. Manjunath, Kalamandalam Rajeev, Hariraam Lam & Nina Harries

    GIGENIS: extract 1

  • Jyotsna Prakash

    GIGENIS: extract 2

    Performer: B.C. Manjunath. Performer: Kalamandalam Rajeev. Performer: Hariraam Lam. Performer: Nina Harries. Singer: Sohini Alam. Singer: Chitra Poornima Sathish. Singer: Rohith Jayaraman.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato-Polka

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

    Sonatine (2nd mvt, Mouvement de Menuet)

    Performer: François-Xavier Poizat.
    • Ravel: The Complete Works with Piano.
    • 貹é.
    • 7.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Amadis (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Capriccio Stravagante. Director: Skip Sempé.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Carl Davis

    A Christmas Carol (IV. Belle and Young Scrooge)

    Orchestra: Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Fri 8 Nov 2024 17:00

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