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This is a list of Private Passions episodes [1] from 2015 to 2019. It does not include repeated episodes or compilations.
Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer |
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4 Jan 2015 | Kate Gross [2] | Traditional music | Sona | |
W. A. Mozart | The Magic Flute : Overture | |||
Leonard Bernstein | "Tonight" | |||
Antonín Dvořák | "Songs my Mother taught me (Gypsy Songs) | |||
Schubert | Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D 960 (2nd movement: Andante) | |||
Hubert Parry | "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" ("Repton") | |||
18 Jan 2015 | Paul Cartledge | Rossini | "Medaglie incomparabili" ( Il viaggio a Reims ) | |
Schubert | String Quintet in C, D 956 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
Stravinsky | Prologue ( Apollo ) | |||
Bob Dylan | "Masters of War" | |||
J. S. Bach | Courante (Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010) | |||
Brahms | "Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras" ( Ein Deutsches Requiem ) | |||
Ancient Greek traditional music | 1st Delphic Hymn to Apollo | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Ruhe sanft" ( Zaide ) | |||
25 Jan 2015 | Henrietta Bowden-Jones | Traditional music | Roving Gambler | |
Antonín Dvořák | "Song to the Moon" ( Rusalka ) | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Donne mie la fate a tanti" ( Così fan tutte ) | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" ( Don Giovanni ) | |||
Hubert Parry | "Jerusalem" | |||
Henry Purcell | "Thy Hand Belinda... When I am laid in earth" ( Dido and Aeneas ) | |||
Reynaldo Hahn | "La Barcheta" (No. 2 from Venezia) | |||
8 Feb 2015 | Nicky Clayton | Messiaen | "Le Rousserolle effarvatte" (No. 7 from Catalogue d'oiseaux ) | |
Ottorino Respighi | "The Birth of Venus" (3rd movement from Trittico botticelliano [Botticelli Triptych]) | |||
Astor Piazzolla | Milonga del Angel | |||
Julian Anderson | Comedy of Change (Section V) | |||
Leoš Janáček | Death of Ostap (Taras Bulba) | |||
Bruckner | Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1st movement: Allegro) | |||
Ravel | Le Gibet (Gaspard de la Nuit) | |||
22 Feb 2015 | Ben Okri | Handel | "Eternal Source of Light Divine" (from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne ) | |
Abdullah Ibrahim | Mannenberg | |||
Harper Simon | Wishes and Stars | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Laudate Dominum" ( Vesperae solennes de confessore ) | |||
Miles Davis | Blue in Green | |||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") (2nd mvt: Andante, 'By the Brook') | |||
Wagner | Entry of the gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold) | |||
Johann Pachelbel | Canon in G | |||
8 Mar 2015 | Anna Meredith | Anna Meredith | Connect it | |
Richard Ayres | In the Alps (Scene 4: The Bobli Dance) | |||
Owen Pallett | I am not afraid | |||
Björk | Unison | |||
Emily Hall | Sonnet (to words by Toby Litt) | |||
Holst | Suite No. 2 in F (1st mvt: March) | |||
John Wilbye | Draw on sweet night | |||
Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 (3rd mvt: Allegro molto) | |||
15 Mar 2015 | Andy McNab | Verdi | Sempre Libera (La Traviata) | |
Puccini | Nessun Dorma (Turandot) | |||
Genesis | Los Endos (A Trick of the Tail) | |||
Plainchant | Crux Fidelis | |||
Clannad | Theme from Harry's Game | |||
Handel | "The People that walked in darkness...For unto us a child is born" (from Messiah ) | |||
Wagner | Die Walküre (Ride of the Valkyries) | |||
22 Mar 2015 | Robert Cohan | Sergei Prokofiev | Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 (Classical) (1st mvt: Allegro) | |
Bach | Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2 in D minor | |||
Eleanor Alberga | Lingua Franca | |||
Jon Keliehor | Class | |||
Vivaldi | Stabat Mater | |||
Alan Hovhaness | Tzaikerk (Evening Song) | |||
Elgar | Sospiri | |||
Barry Guy | Lysandra | |||
5 Apr 2015 | Lucy Winkett | Sister Wynona Carr | I Want to go to Heaven and Rest | |
Orlando Gibbons | O Clap Your Hands | |||
Messiaen | "Vocalise, pour l'ange qui annonce la fin du temps" (2nd movement from Quatuor pour le fin du temps ) | |||
Bach | Sanctus (Mass in B minor) | |||
Traditional music | Were you there when they crucified my Lord? | |||
Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1st mvt: Moderato) | |||
Richard Strauss | "Marie Theres'!.... Hab' mir's gelobt" ( Der Rosenkavalier ) | |||
12 Apr 2015 | Jane Hawking | Brahms | Ein Deutsches Requiem , Op. 45 ("Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen") | |
Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major | |||
Tchaikovsky | Swan Lake (act 2: Overture) | |||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 in A major (3rd mvt: Presto) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
Schubert | Die Forelle (The Trout) | |||
Chopin | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor (2nd mvt: Larghetto) | |||
3 May 2015 | Tim Rice | Felix Mendelssohn | A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture | |
Frederick Loewe | You Did It (My Fair Lady) | |||
Malcolm Arnold | Peterloo Overture | |||
Tim Rice | That's My Story | |||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | A London Symphony (3rd mvt: Scherzo) | |||
Traditional English | The Plough Boy | |||
Jacques Offenbach | Ah, que j'aime les militaires (La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein) | |||
Jean Sibelius | The Swan of Tuonela | |||
17 May 2015 | Iqbal Khan [3] | Wagner | Der Fliegende Hollander (Wie aus der Ferne) | |
Verdi | La Forza del Destino (La Vergine degli angeli) | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Don Giovanni, a cenar teco" ( Don Giovanni ) | |||
Nitin Sawhney | The Conference | |||
Britten | War Requiem (Libera Me – Strange Meeting) | |||
Verdi | La Forza del Destino (act 2, finale) | |||
Jacques Ibert | Chanson de la mort de Don Quichotte | |||
Mahler | Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) (5th mvt, excerpt) | |||
31 May 2015 | Alan Moses | Handel | "Oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" (from Saul ) | |
Donizetti | Quando, rapito in estasi (Lucia di Lammermoor) | |||
Harrison Birtwistle | Dinah and Nick's Love Song | |||
Beethoven | String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130 (5th mvt: Cavatina) | |||
Georges Brassens | Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux | |||
7 Jun 2015 | Christopher Le Brun | Wagner | Good Friday Music (Parsifal, act 3) | |
Francis Poulenc | La Souris | |||
Francis Poulenc | Fleurs (Fiancailles pour rire) | |||
Cole Porter | Night and Day | |||
Arnold Schoenberg | Gurrelieder (Prelude) | |||
William Walton | Viola Concerto (1st mvt) | |||
Grieg | Nocturne (Lyric Pieces, Op. 62, No. 4) | |||
Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (act 1, scene 1) | |||
14 Jun 2015 | Jung Chang | Richard Rodgers | Blue Moon | |
何占豪 | Butterfly Lovers' Concerto | |||
Traditional music | Plum Blossom | |||
Handel | Symphony; "Comfort ye, my people" (from Messiah ) | |||
Traditional music | Wild Geese on the Sandbank | |||
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni | Adagio in G minor | |||
21 Jun 2015 | Alison Goldfrapp | Ennio Morricone | Un altro mare (Vergogna schifosi) | |
Goldfrapp | Utopia (Felt Mountain) | |||
Traditional music | Pilentzee Pee | |||
Astor Piazzolla | "Balda para mi muerte" | |||
Mahler | Symphony No. 5 (4th mvt: Adagietto) | |||
Ligeti | Atmospheres | |||
Richard Strauss | "Fruhling" ( Four Last Songs ) | |||
Steve Reich | Pulses (Music for 18 Musicians) | |||
28 Jun 2015 | Rachel Nicholson | John Adams | Short Ride in a Fast Machine | |
Priaulx Rainier | Cycle for declamation | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Sull'aria ... che soave zeffiretto" ( The Marriage of Figaro ) | |||
Handel | "Lascia ch'io pianga" (from Rinaldo ) | |||
Schubert | Des Müllers Blumen (Die schöne Müllerin) | |||
Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in F minor, Kk519 | |||
Haydn | Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major (Finale: Allegro) | |||
Bach | Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Gloria) | |||
12 Jul 2015 | Henry Marsh | Ali Farka Touré | Soukora | |
Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in C-sharp minor, Kk247 | |||
Beethoven | String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130 (2nd mvt: Presto) | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Tamino mein! O welch ein Glück!" ( The Magic Flute ) | |||
Bach | "So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen" ( St Matthew Passion ) | |||
Sergei Prokofiev | Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 10 (excerpt) | |||
Béla Bartók | String Quartet No. 3 (Coda: Allegro Molto) | |||
19 Jul 2015 | Mona Siddiqui | Liszt | Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat | |
Mahler | Symphony No. 5 (4th mvt: Adagietto) | |||
Puccini | Un bel di, vedremo (Madam Butterfly) | |||
Mehdi Hassan | Rafta rafta voh meri hasti ka | |||
Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 1 (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
John Williams | Remembrances (Schindler's List) | |||
2 Aug 2015 | John Lahr | W. A. Mozart | Symphony No. 41 in C major (Jupiter) K. 551 (4th mvt: Molto Allegro) | |
Jimmy Van Heusen | Darn that Dream | |||
Noël Coward | Why do the Wrong People Travel | |||
Schubert | Gute Nacht (Winterreise) | |||
Charlie Foxx | Mockingbird | |||
Leonard Bernstein | Candide: Overture | |||
Jule Styne | Catch our act at the Met (Two on the Aisle) | |||
9 Aug 2015 | Faramerz Dabhoiwala | Bach | Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, BWV 1043 (1st mvt: Vivace) | |
Cristóbal de Morales | Parce mihi Domine | |||
Nina Simone | Mississippi Goddam | |||
Henry Purcell | When I am Laid in Earth (Dido and Aeneas) | |||
Philip Glass | La Belle et La Bete: Ouverture | |||
Bach | Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140: "Wachet auf" (opening chorus) | |||
Schubert | Piano Sonata in A, D959 (2nd mvt: Andantino) | |||
30 Aug 2015 | Jancis Robinson | Traditional music | A Frog he did a-wooing go | |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Overture and opening) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 412 (1st movement: Allegro) | |||
Keith Jarrett | Solo Concert: Bremen, 12 July 1973 | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Finch'han dal vino" ( Don Giovanni ) | |||
Traditional music | Cherry Tree Carol | |||
Handel | "Con rauco mormorio" (from Rodelinda ) | |||
4 Oct 2015 | Athene Donald | Lili Boulanger | Psalm 130 (Du fond de l'abime) | |
Leoš Janáček | String Quartet No. 2 (Intimate Letters) (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
Thomas Tomkins | When David Heard | |||
Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051 (1st mvt) | |||
Brahms | Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras (Ein Deutsches Requiem) | |||
Antonín Dvořák | Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 (3rd mvt: Scherzo) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364 (1st mvt: Allegro maestoso) | |||
Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer |
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24 Jan 2016 | Baaba Maal | Fela Kuti | No Agreement | |
Baaba Maal | Lam Tooro | |||
W. A. Mozart | Piano Sonata in F major, K. 332 (3rd mvt: Allegro assai) | |||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (2nd mvt: Andante) | |||
Traditional Malian | Epopee mandingue (Soundjata keita) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
Miles Davis | So What | |||
31 Jan 2016 | Shirley Collins | William Boyce | Symphony No. 1 in D major | |
Traditional music | Newcastle | |||
Traditional music | A Denying (The Blacksmith) | |||
Handel | "Lascia ch'io pianga" (from Rinaldo ) | |||
Handel | "Silent Worship" (from Tolomeo ) | |||
Mississippi Fred McDowell | 61 Highway | |||
George Butterworth | The Banks of Green Willow | |||
Michael Praetorius | In Dulce Jubilo (Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning) | |||
Traditional music | Dear Father, Pray Build me a Boat | |||
7 Feb 2016 | Robert Harris | Manuel de Zumaya | Como aunque culpa | |
John Barry | London 1946 (Enigma) | |||
Bach | "Mache dich mein Herze rein" ( St Matthew Passion ) | |||
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra | Sing, Sing, Sing | |||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (3rd mvt: Allegro) | |||
Bach | Concerto in A minor for 4 keyboards, BWV 1065 (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
Amy Winehouse | Back to Black | |||
21 Feb 2016 | Katharine Whitehorn | Pascal Bastia | Je tire ma reverence | |
John Denver | Follow Me | |||
W. A. Mozart | Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543 (2nd mvt: Andante con moto) | |||
Bach | From Cantata No. 147: "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" | |||
Chopin | Waltz in D-flat, Op. 64, no. 1 ("Minute Waltz") | |||
Jean Sibelius | Finlandia | |||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 ("Pastoral") (1st mvt, excerpt) | |||
6 Mar 2016 | Martha Lane Fox | Cole Porter | Too Darn Hot | |
Chopin | Nocturne in B major, Op. 9, No. 3 | |||
Verdi | La Traviata (act 2, sc.1: Pura siccome un angelo) | |||
Schubert | String Quintet in C (Adagio) | |||
Scott Joplin | Elite Syncopations | |||
Beethoven | Fidelio (Prisoners' Chorus: "O welche Lust") | |||
Harold Arlen | Get Happy | |||
27 Mar 2016 | Melanie Reid | Bach | Cello Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007 (Prelude) | |
Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 ("Emperor") (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
Carl Nielsen | Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (2nd mvt: Intermezzo: Poco adagio) | |||
Van Morrison | Cyprus Avenue | |||
Richard Strauss | Four Last Songs (no. 3: "Beim Schlafengehen") | |||
Traditional music | The Dark Island | |||
Holst | The Planets Suite (Jupiter) | |||
10 Apr 2016 | Melly Still | Leoš Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen (Final Scene) | |
Mark D'Inverno | So sweet of you | |||
Wagner | Tannhauser: Overture | |||
Paul von Klenau | Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Kornetts Christoph Rilke (excerpts) | |||
Antonín Dvořák | Rusalka (act 2: "Rusalko, znáš mne, znáš?") | |||
Monteverdi | L'Incoronazione di Poppea (act 3: Pur ti miro) | |||
Terje Isungset | A Glimpse of Light | |||
24 Apr 2016 | Jonathan Bate | Richard Strauss | "Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb" (Ophelia), Op. 67, No. 1 | |
Taylor Swift | Love Story | |||
John Sheppard | Libera nos | |||
Thomas Linley | Overture: A Lyric Ode | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Soave sia il vento" ( Così fan tutte ) | |||
Berlioz | Fantaisie sur la Tempete de Shakespeare (Lelio) | |||
Wagner | Das Liebesverbot (So spat und noch kein Brief von Isabella...) | |||
1 May 2016 | Roger Allam | Messiaen | "La Vierge et l'enfant" (1st movement from La Nativité du Seigneur ) | |
Ravel | Asie (Sheherazade) | |||
Britten | Nocturne (Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings) | |||
Anonymous work | Estampie Royal No. 6 | |||
Bach | Goldberg Variations , BWV 988: Variation No. 14 | |||
Mahler | Symphony No. 4 (4th mvt) | |||
Schubert | Das Wirthaus (Winterreise) | |||
Claude-Michel Schönberg | Stars (Les Misérables) | |||
15 May 2016 | Rose Tremain | Mahler | Symphony No. 5 (4th mvt: Adagietto) | |
George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue | |||
John Dowland | Lachrimae Antiquae | |||
Jacques Plante | La Bohème | |||
Beethoven | Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 81a ("Les Adieux") (2nd mvt: L'Absence) | |||
Boudleaux Bryant | Bye Bye Love | |||
Schubert | Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise) | |||
22 May 2016 | Jane Goodall | Felix Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E minor (2nd mvt: Andante) | |
Hukwe Zawose | Lukunzi | |||
Beethoven | Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, no. 2 ("Moonlight") (1st mvt: Adagio Sostenuto) | |||
Schubert | Salve Regina in B-flat, D. 386 | |||
Bach | Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV. 565 | |||
Antonín Dvořák | Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
5 Jun 2016 | Tanita Tikaram | Duke Ellington | Creole Love Call | |
Lalo Schifrin | The Blues for Johann Sebastian Bach | |||
Vivaldi | Ch'infelice sempre (Cessate, omai cessate) | |||
Ravel | Piano Concerto in G (2nd mvt: Adagio assai) | |||
Joseph Canteloube | Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne) | |||
Bach | Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 1004 | |||
Tanita Tikaram | Twist in my sobriety | |||
Bach | Partita for keyboard No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 (1st mvt: Sinfonia) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 (2nd mvt: Andante) | |||
12 Jun 2016 | John Sutherland | Richard Strauss | Also sprach Zarathustra (excerpt) | |
Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
Traditional music | The Lass of Aughrim | |||
Edward Harper | Fanny Robin (Epilogue) | |||
Britten | Peter Grimes (act 3: Grimes!) | |||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Sinfonia Antartica (Opening) | |||
Camille Saint-Saëns | The Swan (Carnival of the Animals) | |||
19 Jun 2016 | Andrew Solomon | Britten | Tell me the Truth about Love (Cabaret Songs) | |
W. A. Mozart | "Dove sono" ( The Marriage of Figaro ) | |||
Richard Strauss | "Marie Theres'! ... Hab mir's gelobt" ( Der Rosenkavalier ) | |||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Youth and Love (Songs of Travel) | |||
Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (2nd mvt: Intermezzo) | |||
Richard Strauss | "Zueignung" | |||
Reynaldo Hahn | A Chloris | |||
Zibuokle Martinaityte | Completely Embraced by the Beauty of Emptiness | |||
26 Jun 2016 | Glenda Jackson | Ralph Vaughan Williams | A London Symphony (1st mvt: Lento) | |
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 (1st mvt: Moderato) | |||
John Adams | The Chairman Dances | |||
Stevie Wonder | You Haven't Done Nothing | |||
Steve Reich | Clapping Music | |||
Cole Porter | Love for Sale | |||
Stravinsky | Symphony of Psalms (3rd mvt: Alleluja) | |||
24 Jul 2016 | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Mikel Laboa | Txoria txori | |
Nina Simone | Four women | |||
Schubert | Notturno, D.897 | |||
Mikis Theodorakis | The Ballad of Mauthausen | |||
Ravel | Piano Trio in A minor (1st mvt: Modere) | |||
Naseer Shamma | The Love of Birds | |||
Beethoven | "O Welche Lust!" ( Fidelio , act 1) | |||
7 Aug 2016 | Janine di Giovanni | Engelbert Humperdinck | Abendsegen (Hansel und Gretel) | |
Bach | "Aria" ( Goldberg Variations ) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
Schubert | Piano Trio in E-flat major (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
James Taylor | You Can Close Your Eyes | |||
Chopin | Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1 | |||
Jimi Hendrix | Little Wing | |||
14 Aug 2016 | Stephen Hugh-Jones | Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (2nd mvt: Allegro ma non tanto) | |
Henry Purcell | Come ye Sons of Art | |||
Schubert | Piano Sonata in A, D.959 (4th mvt: Rondo) | |||
Bach | "Schlummert ein" (Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82) | |||
Rudy Gomis | Coumbra | |||
Rafael Escalona | El arco iris | |||
21 Aug 2016 | Anna Pavord | Schubert | Impromptu in G-flat major, D. 899, no. 3 | |
Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1st mvt: Adagio – Moderato) | |||
Arwel Hughes | Cwm Rhondda | |||
Schubert | String Quintet in C major, D.956 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
Bach | "Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten" (Cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202) | |||
Cleo Gibson | I've got Ford engine movements in my hips | |||
28 Aug 2016 | Steve Silberman | John Abercrombie | Timeless | |
Steve Reich | Music for 18 Musicians (final sections) | |||
Lou Harrison | Avalokiteshvara | |||
Pérotin | Viderunt Omnes | |||
Allen Ginsberg | The End | |||
Bill Evans | Peace Piece | |||
Steve Reich | Daniel Variations (No. 2: My name is Daniel Pearl) | |||
11 Sep 2016 | Daniel Libeskind | Pérotin | Sederunt principes | |
Traditional music | Amazing Grace | |||
Leonard Bernstein | Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) (excerpt) | |||
Bach | Cantata Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161 (Aria: "Mein Verlangen") | |||
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf | Deconstructing Accordion | |||
Kaija Saariaho | ... A la Fumee | |||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Choral (Finale, excerpt) | |||
18 Sep 2016 | George Shaw | Gluck | What Is Life? | |
Henry Purcell | Cold Song | |||
Brian Eno | Patrolling Wire Borders | |||
Brian Eno | M386 | |||
Traditional music | Lord of the Dance | |||
Elgar | Cello Concerto – III Adagio | |||
Joy Division | Heart and Soul | |||
Schubert | Der Leiermann | |||
25 Sep 2016 | Dame Joan Plowright | Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring (excerpt) | |
Anton Karas | Harry Lime Theme | |||
William Walton | Cello Concerto (1st mvt: Moderato) | |||
William Walton | This Day is Called the Feast of St Crispian (Henry V) | |||
Johann Pachelbel | Canon in D | |||
Puccini | Vissi darte (Tosca) | |||
2 Oct 2016 | Grayson Perry | Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 (1st mvt: Allegro moderato) | |
Handel | "Ombra mai fu" (from Xerxes ) | |||
Philip Glass | Metamorphosis 2 | |||
Frank Turner | Love, Ire and Song | |||
Alessandro Marcello | Oboe concerto in D minor (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
John Hartford | Gentle on my Mind | |||
9 Oct 2016 | Lara Feigel | Bach | English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (Prelude) | |
Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (2nd mvt: Larghetto) | |||
Wagner | O sink hernieder (Tristan und Isolde) | |||
Friedrich Hollaender | Illusions | |||
Debussy | Violin Sonata (1st mvt: Allegro moderato) | |||
Richard Strauss | "Morgen!", Op. 24, no. 7 | |||
Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
16 Oct 2016 | Paterson Joseph | Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Final scene) | |
Louis Armstrong | Memphis Blues Medley | |||
Ignatius Sancho | selection | |||
Richard Rodgers | Glad to be Unhappy | |||
Charles Mingus | Better Git It in Your Soul | |||
Bernie Leadon | The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – theme tune | |||
Bach | "Wo zwei und drei versammlet sind" (Cantata Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42) | |||
23 Oct 2016 | Helen Oyeyemi | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Oriental Dance (Sheherazade) | |
Mohammed Rafi | Suhan Raat Dhal Chooki | |||
Bohuslav Martinu | Pierrots Serenade & The New Puppet (Loutky [Puppets]) | |||
Jacques Offenbach | Les oiseaux dans la charmille (Les Contes dHoffmann) | |||
Cherry Filter | Flying Duck | |||
Bob Crewe | Silhouettes | |||
6 Nov 2016 | Thérèse Oulton | Britten | Elegy (Serenade for tenor, horn and strings) | |
Shostakovich | Prelude and fugue in A major, Op. 87, No. 7 | |||
Mary Lou Williams | Back to the blues | |||
Wagner | Prelude: Das Rheingold | |||
Kurt Weill | Mack the Knife | |||
Messiaen | "Les Ressuscités et le chant de l'étoile Aldebaran" (from Des Canyons aux étoiles... ) | |||
John Cage | Sonatas XIV and XV (Gemini) | |||
Laura Cannell | All the Land Ablaze | |||
13 Nov 2016 | Geoff Dyer | Bach | Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 ( The Well-Tempered Clavier , Book 1) | |
Miles Davis | He Loved Him Madly (Panthallasa) | |||
R. A. Ramamani | Kartik | |||
Traditional Indian | Raga kirvani | |||
Bob Dylan | Im Not There | |||
Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (3rd mvt: Molto Adagio) | |||
The Necks | Drive By | |||
20 Nov 2016 | Charlie Phillips | Traditional music | Go Down Moses | |
Verdi | La Donna e mobile (Rigoletto) | |||
Puccini | Recondita Armonia (Tosca) | |||
Verdi | Va Pensiero (Nabucco) | |||
Scott Joplin | Treemonisha (Overture and act 3 aria) | |||
Dave Brubeck | Blue Rondo a la Turk | |||
Traditional music | How Great Thou Art | |||
4 Dec 2016 | Chris Hadfield | David Bowie | Space Oddity | |
Holst | Jupiter – the Bringer of Jollity ( The Planets ) | |||
Rossini | William Tell Overture | |||
Hans Zimmer | The Battle (Gladiator) | |||
William Herschel | Symphony No. 8 in C minor | |||
Stan Rogers | Northwest Passage | |||
Johann Strauss II | "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" | |||
18 Dec 2016 | Edward Watson | Liszt | Harmonies du Soir (Etudes dexecution transcendentale) | |
Luiz Florez | Volver, volver | |||
Max Richter | Infra 8 | |||
Martha Wainwright | Don't Forget | |||
Arnold Schoenberg | Verklärte Nacht | |||
Bev Lee Harling | Barefoot in your Kitchen | |||
Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker (act 1, tableau 1: Night) | |||
25 Dec 2016 | Archbishop John Sentamu | Handel | "For Unto Us a Child is Born" ( Messiah ) | |
James Montgomery | Ekisera Kye Kitsu | |||
Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1st mvt: Adagio) | |||
Francis Routh | A Sacred Tetralogy (1: The Manger Throne – Christmas) | |||
Maggi Dawn | Come Lord Jesus, Come | |||
Felix Mendelssohn | Hark, the Herald Angels Sing | |||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on Christmas Carols | |||
Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer |
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15 Jan 2017 | Philippe Sands | Leonard Cohen | Anthem | |
Bach | "Erbarme dich" ( St Matthew Passion ) | |||
Rachmaninoff | Melodiya, Op. 21, No. 9 | |||
Keith Jarrett | Koln Concert (part 1) | |||
Seckou Keita | Les Bras de Mer | |||
Mahler | Symphony No. 9 (1st mvt, extract) | |||
Stephin Merritt | Lets Pretend Were Bunny Rabbits | |||
29 Jan 2017 | Stephanie Flanders | Donald Swann | Ill Wind/Friendly Duet | |
W. A. Mozart | Trio in E-flat major, K. 498 ("Kegelstatt") (1st mvt: Andante) | |||
Haydn | Piano Sonata in C major (H.16:50) (1st mvt) | |||
Joseph Horovitz | Foie Gras | |||
Aaron Copland | Appalachian Spring (opening) | |||
Ariel Ramírez | Misa Criolla (Gloria) | |||
Donald Swann | Bilbos Last Song | |||
5 Feb 2017 | Sarah Lucas | Britten | Fanfare for St Edmondsbury | |
Jon Anderson | Long Distance Runaround | |||
Traditional music | Sally in our Alley | |||
Ivor Gurney | Sleep | |||
Henry Purcell | King Arthur (act 1, excerpt) | |||
Can | Oh Yeah | |||
Julian Simmons | The Slider | |||
Britten | The Big Chariot (Songs from the Chinese) | |||
Britten | Dance Song (Songs from the Chinese) | |||
12 Feb 2017 | Peter Robinson | Francis Poulenc | Sextet for Piano and Wind (1st mvt: Allegro vivace) | |
Beethoven | String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 (7th mvt: Allegro) | |||
Sandy Denny | Who knows where the time goes | |||
Schubert | Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D960 (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
Joaquín Rodrigo | Concierto de Aranjuez | |||
Toru Takemitsu | Spirit Garden | |||
Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze | |||
19 Feb 2017 | Petina Gappah | Verdi | Aida (act 2 Finale: Triumphal March) | |
Thomas Mapfumo | Shumba | |||
Verdi | Nabucco (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) | |||
Mahler | Piano Quartet in A minor | |||
Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker (act 2, Pas de deux) | |||
Bob Dylan | Every Grain of Sand | |||
Bhundu Boys | Foolish Harp | |||
5 Mar 2017 | Vesna Goldsworthy | Iosif Ivanovici | The Danube Waves | |
St Nectarios of Aegina | Agni partene (O virgin pure) | |||
Manuel Valls | Adio querida | |||
Никита Богословский | Dark is the night | |||
Tchaikovsky | Marche slave | |||
Henry Purcell | When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) | |||
12 Mar 2017 | Frances Barber | Shane Cullinan | Throw him a Line (The Pieta) | |
Kurt Weill | Surabaya Johnny | |||
Chopin | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 (2nd mvt: Larghetto) | |||
Michael Nyman | Time Lapse | |||
Alfredo Catalani | Ebben? Ne andro lontana (La Wally) | |||
Pet Shop Boys | Left to my own Devices | |||
Schubert | String Quintet in C major, D.956 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
19 Mar 2017 | Juliet Nicolson | Handel | Zadok the Priest | |
George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue | |||
Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, BWV 1046 (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
Dory Previn | Mythical Kings and Iguanas | |||
Handel | Water Music – Suite No. 1 (excerpt) | |||
Mike Deighan | Champs Elysees | |||
2 Apr 2017 | Thomas Ostermeier | Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 15, Op. 144 (1st mvt: Elegy: Adagio) | |
Béla Bartók | Piano Concerto No. 1 (1st mvt: Allegro moderato) | |||
The Stooges | I Wanna Be Your Dog | |||
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern | Rosary Sonata no. 16 in G minor (Passacaglia) | |||
John Cage | 6 Melodies (No. 1: Rubato) | |||
Luciano Berio | Sequenza VIII | |||
John Adams | Road Movies (no. 1: Relaxed Groove) | |||
16 Apr 2017 | Mark Padmore | Bach | "Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein" ( St John Passion , BWV 245) | |
Jacob Handl | Ecce quomodo moritur justus | |||
John Cage | Experiences No. 2 | |||
Mahler | Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen | |||
Nebojša Jovan Živković | Trio per uno, Op. 27, III | |||
Ryan Wigglesworth | Augenlieder IV: Keep your eyes open | |||
Schubert | Der Winterabend | |||
Thomas A. Dorsey | Take my hand, precious Lord | |||
23 Apr 2017 | A. L. Kennedy | Francesco Cavalli | Piacque a me sempre piu (LEgisto) | |
Francesco Cavalli | Lasso io vivo e non ho vita (LEgisto) | |||
Osvaldo Golijov | Tekyah | |||
Josquin des Prez | Mille regretz | |||
Guy Woolfenden | Full Fathom Five | |||
John Adams | I was looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (excerpt) | |||
Bach | Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (excerpt) | |||
Traditional music | S Trom an Direadh | |||
7 May 2017 | Gabriele Finaldi | Ravel | Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt: Adagio assai) | |
Puccini | "E lucevan le stelle" (Tosca) | |||
Britten | War Requiem , Op. 66 (Sanctus) | |||
Messiaen | Saint François d'Assise (act 1, scene 3: The Kissing of the Leper) | |||
Camarón de la Isla | La Saeta | |||
Traditional music | Vurria Addaventare | |||
Chris Martin | A Sky full of Stars | |||
21 May 2017 | Bettany Hughes | Traditional music | Bu Yil Bekar Kalahm | |
William Lloyd Webber | Nocturne | |||
Flanders and Swann | The Hippopotamus Song | |||
Henry Purcell | When I am Laid in Earth (Dido and Aeneas) | |||
Kassiano | Troparion for Holy Wednesday | |||
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5 (1st mvt: Moderato) | |||
Traditional music | Skaros (Shepherds Song of Epiros) | |||
4 Jun 2017 | Ivo van Hove | Brad Mehldau | Bard | |
Bach | Pedal-exercitium in G minor, BWV 598 | |||
Joni Mitchell | Blue | |||
Shostakovich | Prelude and Fugue in C major, Op. 87, No. 1 | |||
Anton Webern | String Quartet, Op. 28 (1st mvt: Massig) | |||
Rufus Wainwright | Going to a Town | |||
Ligeti | Sonata for solo cello (1st mvt: Dialogo: Adagio, rubato, cantabile) | |||
11 Jun 2017 | Nishat Khan | Imrat Khan | Night at the Taj | |
Bach | Mass in B minor (Kyrie) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 (1st mvt: Allegro) | |||
Manuel de Falla | The Three-Cornered Hat (Final Dance) | |||
Bruckner | Symphony No. 8 in C minor (2nd mvt: Scherzo) | |||
Britten | Peter Grimes (act 2: Sunday Morning) | |||
Traditional music | Tibi Dixit | |||
18 Jun 2017 | Patsy Rodenburg | Joseph Canteloube | Bailero (Songs of the Auvergne) | |
Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 (3rd mvt: Allegro molto) | |||
Bach | "Erbarme dich" ( St Matthew Passion ) | |||
Philip Glass | String Quartet No. 5 | |||
Richard Strauss | "Im Abendrot" ( Four Last Songs ) | |||
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó | Cancion y Danza No. 1 | |||
Joni Mitchell | Carey | |||
25 Jun 2017 | Madeleine Thien | Mahler | Das Lied von der Erde: Der Abschied | |
賀綠汀 | Lullaby | |||
Abing | Moon Reflected on the Second Spring | |||
Bach | Goldberg Variations : Aria and Variation 15 | |||
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 – 3: Largo | |||
Bach | Sonata for Violin and Harpichord, No. 4 in C minor, BWV 1017 – 1: Siciliano | |||
Leonard Cohen | Dance Me to the End of Love | |||
2 Jul 2017 | Lindsey Davis | Schubert | Heidenröslein | |
Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 6 in B minor (3rd mvt: Allegro molto vivace) | |||
Bach | Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 | |||
W. A. Mozart | Concerto in E-flat major for two pianos and orchestra, K. 365 | |||
Jean-Philippe Rameau | Les Sauvages (Les Indes Galantes) | |||
Antonín Dvořák | Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 3 | |||
Berlioz | Roman Carnival Overture | |||
9 Jul 2017 | Dan Pearson | Hildegard von Bingen | O spectabiles viri | |
Traditional music | Tri byulbyula peyat | |||
Alice Coltrane | Lovely Sky Boat | |||
Caetano Veloso | Tonada de Luna Llena | |||
Margarita Lecuona | Babalu | |||
Arvo Pärt | Fratres | |||
Moondog | Oboe Round | |||
16 Jul 2017 | Shirley Hughes | Alexander Scriabin | Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor (1st mvt: Drammatico) | |
Jimmy McHugh | I Must Have that Man | |||
Schubert | Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise) | |||
W. A. Mozart | "Voi che sapete" ( The Marriage of Figaro ) | |||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 1 in C major (1st mvt) | |||
W. A. Mozart | Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major, K. 313 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | |||
John Lennon and Paul McCartney | She's Leaving Home | |||
6 Aug 2017 | Nick Davies | Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 in F "Pastoral" (2nd mvt: Scene by the Brook) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor: Riccardo Chailly |
Britten | Cuckoo! (Friday Afternoons) | Singer: John Hahessy. Singer: Michael Berkeley. | ||
Rachmaninoff | Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32, No. 12 | Vladimir Ashkenazy | ||
Samuel Barber | "Sure on this shining night" | Roger Vignoles (piano), Thomas Allen (baritone) | ||
W. A. Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364 (2nd mvt: Andante) | Vilde Frang (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Arcangelo ensemble, conductor: Jonathan Cohen | ||
Herbert Howells | King David | Malcolm Martineau (piano), Lynne Dawson (soprano) | ||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | "The Lark Ascending" | Pinchas Zukerman (violin), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Daniel Barenboim | ||
John Lennon and Paul McCartney | "Blackbird" | The Beatles | ||
13 Aug 2017 | Vivien Duffield | Ravel | Kaddish (2 Hebrew Melodies) | Performer: Dalton Baldwin, singer: Jessye Norman |
Charles Dumont | Je ne regrette rien | Singer: Édith Piaf | ||
Puccini | Visi d'arte (Tosca) | Maria Callas, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | ||
Richard Strauss | An Alpine Symphony | Saito Kinen Orchestra, conductor: Daniel Harding | ||
Verdi | Di quella pira (Il Trovatore) | Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra, conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini, singer: Plácido Domingo | ||
Wagner | Hochsten heiles Wunder (Parsifal) | Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth Festival Chorus, conductor: Pierre Boulez | ||
Haydn | The Heavens are Telling (The Creation) | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, conductor: Sir Simon Rattle | ||
27 Aug 2017 | Michael Craig-Martin | Erik Satie | Gnossienne No. 3 | Performer: Noriko Ogawa |
Bach | Sarabande (Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008) | Performer: Yo-Yo Ma | ||
Bach | "Aria" ( Goldberg Variations ) | Performer: Glenn Gould | ||
Verdi | Addio, del passato (La Traviata) | Singer: Maria Callas | ||
Simeon ten Holt | Canto ostinato (excerpt) | Performers: Kees Wieringa, Polo de Haas | ||
Bizet | Au fond du temple saint (Pecheurs de perles) | Singers: Jussi Björling, Robert Merrill, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra | ||
Vivaldi | Vedro con mio diletto (Giustino) | Singer: Philippe Jaroussky, Ensemble Matheus, conductor: Jean-Christophe Spinosi | ||
3 Sep 2017 | Gwyneth Glyn | Guto Puw | Torri'r garreg – Overture | Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Guto Puw. |
Michael Tippett | Concerto for Double String Orchestra (2nd mvt) | Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis. | ||
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons. | ||
Traditional music | Y cariad cyntaf | Singer: Meredydd Evans. | ||
Traditional music | Teri Aankhon Mein (Seren Syw) | Singer: Tahseef Akhbar. Singer: Gwyneth Gwyn. | ||
Traditional music | Woh dil hi kya | Singer: Jagjit Singh. | ||
Tchaikovsky | Cherubic Hymn (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom) | Choir: State Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory. Conductor: Valery Kuzmich Polyansky. | ||
Elizabeth Poston | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Singer: Aled Jones. Choir: BBC Welsh Chamber Choir. | ||
10 Sep 2017 | Sebastian Barry | Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (1st mvt) | Performer: Chloë Hanslip, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Martyn Brabbins |
Traditional music | Quiet Land of Erin | Singer: Mary O'Hara | ||
Debussy | Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner) | Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet | ||
Traditional music | O Death | Singer: Ralph Stanley | ||
Handel | "Sound an alarm" (from Judas Maccabaeus ) | London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent, singer: Richard Lewis | ||
Joaquín Rodrigo | Concierto de Aranjuez (3rd mvt: Allegro con Spirito) | Performer: Julian Bream, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor: John Eliot Gardiner | ||
Bach | Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007 (Prelude) | Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich | ||
Traditional music | The Three Ravens | Performer: Desmond Dupré, singer: Alfred Deller | ||
24 Sep 2017 | Stephen Poliakoff | W. A. Mozart | Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra, K. 299 (1st mvt: Allegro) | Performers: Nicanor Zabaleta (harp), Wolfgang Schulz (flute), orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Karl Böhm |
Haydn | Symphony No. 49 in F minor (1st mvt: Adagio) | Orchestra: Bath Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin. | ||
Adrian Johnston | Johnnie (The Lost Prince) | Performer: Terry Davies. | ||
Michael Tippett | Concerto for double string orchestra (1st movement) | Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: Bath Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Barshai. | ||
Bach | O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV 118 | Orchestra: Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, conductor: Helmuth Rilling | ||
Georges Delerue | Grand Choral (La Nuit Americaine) | Performer: Original Soundtrack recording. | ||
Handel | Oboe concerto in G minor, HWV 287 (1st mvt: Grave) | Performer: Heinz Holliger, orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Raymond Leppard | ||
1 Oct 2017 | Maurice Riordan | Traditional music | Oro se do bheatha abhaile | Singer: Darach Ó Catháin. |
Samuel Barber | The Monk and his Cat (Hermit Songs) | Performer: Samuel Barber. Singer: Leontyne Price. | ||
Anonymous work | Dies Irae | Choir: Aurora Surgit. | ||
Astor Piazzolla | "Jacinto Chiclana" | Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon), Edmundo Rivero (vocal), Quinteto Tango Nuevo | ||
Debussy | Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune | Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. | ||
Monteverdi | Possente Spirto (L'Orfeo) | Ensemble: Le Concert d'Astrée. Conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm. Singer: Ian Bostridge. | ||
Traditional music | Moses Ritoolarilay | Singer: Margaret Barry. | ||
8 Oct 2017 | Hildegard Bechtler | Wagner | Götterdämmerung (final scene) | Orchestra: Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele. Conductor: Karl Böhm. |
Thomas Adès | Powder her Face (opening) | Ensemble: Almeida Ensemble. Conductor: Thomas Adès. Singer: Valdine Anderson. Singer: Niall Morris. | ||
Traditional music | Taruna Jaya | Ensemble: Gamelan Ensemble. | ||
Traditional music | Now Westlin' Winds | Singer: Dick Gaughan. | ||
Berlioz | La Damnation de Faust (Easter Hymn) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis. Singer: Giuseppe Sabbatini. | ||
Bob Dylan | She Belongs to Me | Singer: Bob Dylan. | ||
Hildegard von Bingen | O vis aeternitatis | Ensemble: Sequentia Ensemble. | ||
15 Oct 2017 | Sir Simon Wessely | Bach | Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013 (1st mvt: Allemande) | Performer: Jean-Pierre Rampal |
Puccini | La Bohème (act 3, excerpt) | Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. | ||
Frank Loesser | Adelaide's Lament (Guys and Dolls) | Singer: Julia McKenzie. | ||
Brahms | Violin Concerto in D major (1st mvt: Allegro non troppo) | Performer: Isaac Stern. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. | ||
W. A. Mozart | Don Giovanni (act 3, excerpt) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Georg Solti, singer: Bryn Terfel | ||
Leonard Bernstein | Gee Officer Krupke (West Side Story) | Ensemble: Unknown. | ||
Antonín Dvořák | String Quartet in F major, Op. 96 (American) (1st mvt: Allegro ma non troppo) | Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet. | ||
22 Oct 2017 | Allan Corduner | Schubert | Fantasia in F minor | Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Radu Lupu. |
Alexander Scriabin | Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, no. 12 | Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. | ||
Max Bruch | Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 | Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. | ||
Bach | "Aria" ( Goldberg Variations , BWV 988) | Performer: Glenn Gould | ||
Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1st mvt: Allegro moderato) | Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. | ||
Stephen Sondheim | Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music) | Singer: Judi Dench. | ||
29 Oct 2017 | Vesna Goldsworthy | Iosif Ivanovici | The Danube Waves | Performer: Vienna Volksoper Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Bauer-Theussl. |
St Nectarios of Aegina | Agni partene (O virgin pure) | Performer: Divna Ljubojević. | ||
Manuel Valls | Adio querida | Performer: Yasmin Levy. | ||
Nikita Bogoslovsky | Dark is the night | Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian. Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. | ||
Tchaikovsky | Marche slave | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn. | ||
Henry Purcell | When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. | ||
5 Nov 2017 | Ronan Bennett | Thomas Tallis | If Ye Love Me | Choir: Tallis Scholars. |
Richard Strauss | "Beim Schlafengehen" ( Four Last Songs ) | Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Singer: Jessye Norman. | ||
Traditional music | Women of Ireland | Ensemble: The Chieftains. | ||
Chopin | Nocturne in C-sharp minor | Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. | ||
Kano | Little Sis | Performer: Kano. | ||
Berlioz | Nuit d'Ivresse (Les Troyens) | Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Armstrong. Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. | ||
Hans Zimmer | You're so Cool | Performer: Soundtrack. | ||
Justin Burnham | Skinny Love | Ensemble: Bon Iver. | ||
12 Nov 2017 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Tchaikovsky | 1812 Overture | Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti. |
Sergei Prokofiev | Peter and the Wolf | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Ellis. Narrator: Peter Ustinov. | ||
Verdi | Celeste Aida (Aida) | Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. | ||
Leonard Cohen | Chelsea Hotel No. 2 | Performer: Rufus Wainwright. | ||
Wagner | Selig, wie die Sonne (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Singer: Gerald Finley. | ||
יהורם גאון | Hasar Moshe Montefiore | Singer: יהורם גאון. | ||
W. A. Mozart | Piano Sonata in A major, K. 331 (3rd mvt: Rondo alla Turca) | Performer: Mitsuko Uchida | ||
Mick Jagger | Sympathy for the Devil | Ensemble: The Rolling Stones. | ||
19 Nov 2017 | John Surman | John Surman | SAS Blues | Performer: John Surman. Performer: Karin Krog. |
Bach | "Kommt, ihr Töchter" ( St Matthew Passion ) | Orchestra: Münchener Bach-Chor and Orchestra, conductor: Karl Richter | ||
Traditional music | Blow the Wind Southerly | Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. | ||
Duke Ellington | The Star-crossed Lovers (Such Sweet Thunder) | km_ Billy Strayhorn. Performer: Duke Ellington. | ||
Béla Bartók | Concerto for Orchestra (4th mvt: Intermezzo) | Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. | ||
Harry Ruby | Three Little Words | Performer: Sonny Rollins. | ||
George Gershwin | Gone | Performer: Miles Davis. | ||
Beethoven | Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique") (2nd mvt: Adagio cantabile) | Performer: Ingrid Fliter | ||
3 Dec 2017 | Susan Richards (WorldCat, VIAF 100320328) | Iegor Reznikoff | Grand Magnificat (Liturgie Fondamentale) | Singer: Iegor Reznikoff. |
Alexander Scriabin | Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 | Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. | ||
Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring | Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. | ||
Shostakovich | Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 (2nd mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Daniil Borisovich Shafran. Performer: Dmitry Shostakovich. | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 83 (1st mvt: Allegro inquieto) | Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. | ||
Elena Kamburova | Poem by Vladimir Vysotsky | Singer: Elena Kamburova. | ||
Sofia Gubaidulina | Et Expecto | Performer: Geir Draugsvoll. | ||
10 Dec 2017 | Michael Frayn | Beethoven | Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 24 ("Spring") – 1st mvt: Allegro | Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. |
Sergei Prokofiev | Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 – 1st mvt: Andantino | Performer: David Oistrakh. Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Kyrill Kondrashin. | ||
Mahler | Ich atmet' einen linden Duft; Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder (Ruckert-Lieder) | Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Bohm. Singer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. | ||
Muriel Herbert | The Lake Isle of Innisfree | Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris. | ||
W. A. Mozart | Lo sposo deluso – overture | Orchestra: Antwerp Transparant Chamber Opera, conductor: Hans Rotman | ||
Brahms | String Sextet in G major, Op. 36 – 2nd mvt: Scherzo | Ensemble: Raphael Ensemble. | ||
Bob Brookmeyer | Open Country | Ensemble: Gerry Mulligan Quartet. | ||
17 Dec 2017 | Jane Birkin | Serge Gainsbourg | Je t'aime | Performer: Serge Gainsbourg. Performer: Jane Birkin. |
Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring | Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. | ||
John Barry | Chinon-Eleanor's Arrival (The Lion in Winter) | Orchestra: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine. Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. | ||
Mahler | Symphony No. 10 (1st mvt: Adagio) | Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman. | ||
Gregorio Allegri | Miserere | Choir: King'S College Cambridge Choir. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. | ||
Olivier Messaien | Turangalila-symphonie (5th mvt: Joie du sang des etoiles) | Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. | ||
Leonard Bernstein | West Side Story – Overture | Conductor: Leonard Bernstein | ||
31 Dec 2017 | Alfred Brendel | Fredy Raymond | Ich reiss mir eine Wimper aus | Performer: Max Hansen. |
Carlo Gesualdo | Non t'amo, o voce ingrata | Choir: Delitiæ Musicæ. Conductor: Marco Longhini. | ||
Jan Dismas Zelenka | Trio Sonata No. 6 in C minor (2nd mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Maurice Bourgue. Performer: Klaus Thunemann. | ||
Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (1st mvt, cadenza) | Performer: Alfred Cortot, orchestra of the École normale de musique de Paris | ||
Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (3rd mvt: Heiliger Dankgesang) | Ensemble: Busch Quartet | ||
Schubert | Die Junge Nonne | Performer: Edwin Fischer. Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. | ||
Liszt | Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat (2nd mvt: Quasi Adagio) | Performer: Wilhelm Kempff. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari. | ||
Bizet | Michaela's Aria (Carmen, act 3) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Alceo Galliera. Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. | ||
Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer |
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14 Jan 2018 | Helen Czerski | Donald Swann | First and Second Law | Performer: Michael Flanders. Performer: Donald Swann. |
Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) (Finale) | Orchestra: Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Claus Peter Flor | ||
Johann Strauss II | "Champagner-Polka" | Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky. | ||
Bach | Concerto in D minor (Adagio) | Music arranger: Jacques Loussier, ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio. | ||
Verdi | Il Trovatore (Anvil Chorus) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Choir: London Voices. | ||
Rossini | Barber of Seville (Largo al Factotum) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. | ||
Camille Saint-Saëns | Carnival of the Animals (Fossils) | Performer: John Ogdon. Performer: Brenda Lucas. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Frémaux. | ||
21 Jan 2018 | Alistair Spalding | Debussy | Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez. |
Leonard Bernstein | America (West Side Story) | Performer: Chita Rivera. Performer: Marilyn Cooper. | ||
Bach | "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639" | Performer: Alfred Brendel, arrangement: Ferruccio Busoni | ||
Thomas Adès | Polaris | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Adès. | ||
Nick Cave | Skeleton Tree | Performer: Nick Cave. | ||
Joni Mitchell | Amelia | Performer: Joni Mitchell. | ||
Monteverdi | Adagiati, Poppea (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) | Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Pritchard. Singer: Magda László. | ||
28 Jan 2018 | Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough | Frode Fjellheim | Eatnamen Vuelie | Choir: Cantus. Conductor: Tove Ramlo-Ystad. |
Traditional music | Voluspa | Performer: Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson. | ||
Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 (3rd mvt: Allegro) | Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. | ||
Handel | "Eternal Source of Light Divine" ( Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne ) | Performer: Alison Balsom (trumpet), singer: Iestyn Davies (countertenor), ensemble: The English Concert | ||
Traditional music | Lord Franklin | Performer: Martin Carthy. | ||
Eriks Esenvalds | Northern Lights | Choir: Trinity College Cambridge Choir. Conductor: Stephen Layton. | ||
Wardruna | Rotlaust tre fell | Ensemble: Wardruna. | ||
Geoffrey Burgon | Aslan's Theme (The Chronicles of Narnia) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. | ||
11 Feb 2018 | Bernard Cornwell | Gabriel Fauré | In Paradisum (Requiem) | Ensemble: Schola Cantorum of Oxford. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly. |
Schubert | An Sylvia | Ensemble: The King's Singers. | ||
Mitch Leigh | The Impossible Dream (The Man of La Mancha) | Singer: Brian Stokes Mitchell. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Lux Aeterna" (Requiem) | Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden, singers: Margaret Price, Peter Schreier, choir: Leipzig Radio Choir | ||
Thomas Morley | It was a Lover and his Lass | Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Charles Daniels. | ||
Gregorio Allegri | Miserere | Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short. | ||
Cole Porter | I Get a Kick out of You (Anything Goes) | Singer: Kim Criswell. | ||
18 Feb 2018 | Bishi | Bishi | The Good Immigrant | Performer: Bishi. |
Philip Glass | Prashanti | km_ Ravi Shankar. Performer: Ravi Shankar. Performer: Philip Glass. | ||
Rossini | Overture: La Gazza Ladra | Ensemble: Soundtrack. | ||
Rossini | Overture: La Gazza Ladra | km_ Wendy Carlos. Performer: Wendy Carlos. | ||
Stravinsky | Petrushka | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. | ||
Ennio Morricone | The Ecstasy of Gold (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) | Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Ennio Morricone. | ||
Mica Levi | Lonely Void | Ensemble: Ensemble. Conductor: Peter Raeburn. | ||
Meredith Monk | Turtle Dreams | Performer: Meridith Monk. | ||
Peter Liondev | Kaval sviri | Ensemble: Trakia Ensemble. | ||
4 Mar 2018 | Katherine Grainger | Chopin | Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. | Performer: Kathryn Stott. |
Mahler | Symphony No. 6 (1st mvt) | Orchestra: Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Simone Young. | ||
Verdi | La Donna e mobile (Rigoletto) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. | ||
Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (2nd mvt) | Performer: Valentina Lisitsa. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Francis. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Voi che sapete" ( The Marriage of Figaro ) | Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Riccardo Muti, singer: Ann Murray | ||
Elgar | Softly and Gently (The Dream of Gerontius) | Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli. Singer: Janet Baker. | ||
Vivaldi | Concerto in D major, BWV 972 | Performer: Alison Balsom, Colm Carey (organ), arrangement: Johann Sebastian Bach | ||
11 Mar 2018 | Richard Flanagan | Johann Paul Westhoff | Violin Sonata No. 3 | Performer: Daniel Hope. Music Arranger: Christian Badzura. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Simon Halsey. |
Serge Gainsbourg | Valse de Melodie | Singer: Jane Birkin. | ||
John Field | Nocturne No. 6 in F | Performer: Benjamin Frith. | ||
Chopin | Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1 | Performer: Chad Lawson. Music Arranger: Chad Lawson. | ||
Mikis Theodorakis | Hassapiko Dance (Zorbas) | Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Choir: Montreal Symphony Chorus. | ||
Cezary Skubiszewski | For There is This (The Sound of One Hand Clapping) | Orchestra: Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Cezary Skubiszewski. | ||
Arvo Pärt | Vater Unser | Performer: Arvo Pärt. Singer: Heldur Harry Põlda. | ||
Bach | "Aria" ( Goldberg Variations ) | Performer: Glenn Gould | ||
25 Mar 2018 | Xavier Bray | Verdi | Nessun maggior dolore (Otello) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos. Singer: Alfonso Leoz. |
Handel | "Ombra mai fu" (from Serse ) | Conductor: John Barbirolli, singer: Beniamino Gigli | ||
Wagner | Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser) | Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Choir: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks. | ||
Paco Peña | Misa flamenca | Performer: Paco Peña. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: László Heltay. | ||
Tomás Luis de Victoria | O vos omnes | Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers. | ||
Messiaen | Saint François d'Assise (excerpt) | Orchestra: The Hallé, conductor: Kent Nagano, choir: Arnold Schoenberg Choir | ||
Bayarbaatar Davaasuren | Mongolian Throat Singing | Singer: Bayarbaatar Davaasuren. | ||
Marin Marais | Le Badinage | |||
Bizet | Je crois entendre encore (Les Pecheurs de perles) | Singer: Alain Vanzo. | ||
1 Apr 2018 | Richard Coles | Leoš Janáček | The Barn Owl has not flown away (On an Overgrown Path) | Performer: Rudolf Firkušný. |
Ann Ronell | Willow weep for me | Performer: Art Tatum. | ||
W. A. Mozart | Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 (Jupiter) (4th mvt) | Orchestra: Freiburger Barockorchester, conductor: René Jacobs | ||
Peter Wishart | Jesu, Dulcis Memoria | Choir: New College Oxford Choir. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom. | ||
Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (act 3, prelude) | Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler. | ||
Haydn | String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 20, no. 1 (1st mvt) | Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet. | ||
Anonymous work | Haec Dies (Gradual Mass of Easter) | Choir: Monks of St Pierre de Solemnes Abbey. | ||
8 Apr 2018 | Phyllida Barlow | Leoš Janáček | String Quartet No. 2 (2nd movement: Adagio) | Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet. |
Harrison Birtwistle | Antiphonies (excerpt) | Performer: Joanna MacGregor. Orchestra: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Michael Gielen. | ||
Wagner | Tristan und Isolde (act 3: Mild und leise) | Orchestra: Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele. Conductor: Karl Böhm. Singer: Birgit Nilsson. | ||
Abel Meeropol | Strange Fruit | Performer: Billie Holiday. | ||
Messiaen | Turangalîla-Symphonie (8th mvt: "Développement d’amour") | Orchestra: Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor: Riccardo Chailly | ||
Kayhan Kalhor | I Will Not Stand Alone | Performer: Kayhan Kalhor. Performer: Ali Bahrami Fard. | ||
Anton Webern | 5 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Craft. | ||
22 Apr 2018 | Anne Sebba | Felix Mendelssohn | Octet in E-flat major (3rd mvt: Scherzo) | Ensemble: Ensemble. |
Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Arthur Rubinstein. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner. | ||
Verdi | Don Carlo (act 4: Tu che le vanita) | Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicola Rescigno. Singer: Maria Callas. | ||
Arnold Bax | Symphonic Variations (No. 6: Triumph) | Performer: Margaret Fingerhut. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson. | ||
Germaine Tillion | Le Verfugbar aux Enfers | Ensemble: Ensemble. | ||
Kurt Weill | The Ballad of Mack the Knife | Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Dominic Muldowney. Singer: Robyn Archer. | ||
Chopin | Cello Sonata, Op. 65 (2nd mvt) | Performer: Yo-Yo Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax. | ||
6 May 2018 | Lubaina Himid | Vincenzo Bellini | Mira, o Norma (Norma, act 3) | Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Marilyn Horne. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge. |
Max Bruch | Kol Nidrei | Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Performer: Gerald Moore. | ||
Donal MacDonagh Long | Never Be the Sun | Performer: Dolores Keane. | ||
Keith Jarrett | Koln Concert (Part 1) | Performer: Keith Jarrett. | ||
Zbigniew Preisner | Song for the Unification of Europe | Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia. Conductor: Wojciech Michniewski. | ||
Leoš Janáček | They Chattered Like Swallows (On an Overgrown Path) | Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. | ||
Bob Dylan | Just Like a Woman | Performer: Nina Simone. | ||
20 May 2018 | Elisabeth Luard | W. A. Mozart | "Porgi amor" ( The Marriage of Figaro ) | Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor: Ion Marin, singer: Angela Gheorghiu |
Elgar | Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus (The Dream of Gerontius) | Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Singer: Stuart Skelton. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. | ||
Paco de Lucía | El Adios | Ensemble: Amigos de Gines. | ||
Billie Holiday | God Bless the Child | Performer: Annie Ross. | ||
Dory Previn | Jesus was an Androgyne | Performer: Dory Previn. | ||
Beethoven | Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight") (1st mvt: Adagio sostenuto) | Performer: Radu Lupu | ||
27 May 2018 | Peter Florence | Mahler | Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) (Finale) | Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Singer: Janet Baker. |
Glynn Jones | Dafydd u garreg wen | Performer: Annette Bryn Parri. Singer: Bryn Terfel. | ||
Handel | Sarabande (from Suite No. 11 in D minor) | Performer: Igor Kipnis | ||
Bach | Goldberg Variations , BWV 988 | Performer: Sir András Schiff | ||
Anouar Brahem | Le pas du chat noir | Performer: Anouar Brahem. Performer: François Couturier. Performer: Jean-Louis Matinier. | ||
George Gershwin | The Man that I love | Singer: Sarah Vaughan. | ||
17 Jun 2018 | Miranda Krestovnikoff | Bohuslav Martinu | Flute Sonata (3rd mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Michael Cox. Performer: Nigel Clayton. |
Michel Camilo | Why Not? | Performer: Michel Camilo. | ||
Maurice Duruflé | Ubi caritas (Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens) | Choir: Bristol University Singers. | ||
Rachmaninoff | All-Night Vigil | Choir: Saint Petersburg Chamber Choir. Conductor: Nikolai Korniev. | ||
Holst | Mercury (The Planets) | Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. | ||
Sting | Fields of Gold | Performer: Sting. | ||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | The Lover's Ghost (Five English Folk Songs) | Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer. | ||
Bach | Gigue (Cello Suite No. 3) | Performer: Paul Tortelier | ||
Stan Tracey | Starless and Bible Black | Ensemble: Stan Tracey Quartet. | ||
Hermann von Reichenau | Salve Regina | Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. | ||
Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor (1st mvt: Elegy) | Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet. | ||
Messiaen | Quartet for the end of time | Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence | ||
Haydn | Sonata in D major, H.16.42 (1st mvt) | Performer: Glenn Gould. | ||
Deborah Pritchard | River Above | Performer: Simon Haram. | ||
24 Jun 2018 | Kim Moore(WorldCat) | Alexander Arutunyan | Trumpet Concerto (1st mvt) | Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Renes. |
Handel | "The trumpet shall sound" (from Messiah ) | Orchestra: The Sixteen, conductor: Harry Christophers, singer: Christopher Purves | ||
Jean-Baptiste Arban | Variations on 'The Carnival of Venice' | Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. | ||
William Rimmer | Slaidburn | Performer: Wingates Temperance Band. | ||
Britten | (Elegy) Serenade for tenor, horn and strings | Performer: Jasper de Waal. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Conductor: Candida Thompson. Singer: James Gilchrist. | ||
Joaquín Rodrigo | Adagio (Concierto de Aranjuez) | Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Music Arranger: Kevin Bolton. | ||
Dave McGerty | You Can't Mean It | Ensemble: Chapter 5. | ||
8 Jul 2018 | Adjoa Andoh | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on Greensleeves | Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner. |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Sheherazade (Finale) | Performer: Sydney Harth. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner. | ||
Pharoah Sanders | The Creator Has A Master Plan | |||
Holst | Neptune (The Planets) | |||
Dade Krama | Kronkohinkoo | Performer: Kweku Gablah. Performer: Dada Lamptey. Performer: Nii Noi Nortey. Performer: Nana Tsiboe. | ||
Puccini | Nessun Dorma (Turandot) | Orchestra: Münchner Rundfunkorchester. Conductor: Roberto Abbado. Singer: Ben Heppner. | ||
Britten | Peter Grimes, act 1 (The Truth, The Pity...) | Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Orchestra: Richard Hickox. Singer: Philip Langridge. Singer: Janice Watson. | ||
Leonard Bernstein | Quintet (West Side Story) | Performer: Jimmy Bryant. Performer: Marni Nixon. | ||
15 Jul 2018 | Paco Peña | Camarón de la Isla | Se me partió la barrena | Performer: Camarón de la Isla. |
Beethoven | Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight") (1st movement) | Performer: Alfred Brendel | ||
Eduardo Falú | Tonada del viejo amor | Performer: Paco Peña. Singer: Eduardo Falú. | ||
Bach | Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 | Performer: Jascha Heifetz | ||
Manuel de Falla | La vida breve (act 2, finale) | Orchestra: National Orchestra of Spain. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Singer: Victoria de los Ángeles. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Requiem aeternam" (Requiem in D minor, K. 626) | Orchestra: Dunedin Consort & Players, conductor: John Butt, singer: Joanne Lunn | ||
Bach | Fugue from Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998 | Performer: John Williams (guitar) | ||
22 Jul 2018 | Audrey Niffenegger | Allein Gott | Toccata on the Chorale | Performer: Aivars Kalējs. |
Hildegard von Bingen | O virtus sapientie | Ensemble: Kronos Quartet. | ||
Radiohead | Give up the Ghost | Ensemble: Radiohead. | ||
Charles Ives | Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord MA) (3rd mvt: The Alcotts) | Performer: Charles Ives. | ||
Rachel's | First Self-Portrait Series (Music for Egon Schiele) | Ensemble: Rachel's. | ||
Pauline Oliveros | Lear | Performer: Pauline Oliveros. Performer: Stuart Dempster. Performer: Panaiotis. | ||
Astor Piazzolla | "Sur – Regresso al amor" | Yo-Yo Ma, Quinteto Tango Nuevo | ||
29 Jul 2018 | Henry Blofeld | W. A. Mozart | "Non più andrai" ( The Marriage of Figaro , act 1) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini, singer: Giuseppe Taddei |
Arthur Sullivan | If you're anxious for to shine (Patience) | Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. Singer: George Baker. | ||
Schubert | Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) | Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis. | ||
Burt Bacharach | This Guy's in Love with You | Performer: Herb Alpert. Ensemble: Tijuana Brass. | ||
Noël Coward | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Performer: Noël Coward. | ||
Ravi Shankar | Dhun | Performer: Ravi Shankar. | ||
Stephen Sondheim | Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music) | Performer: Barbra Streisand. | ||
Puccini | E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) | Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leone Magiera. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. | ||
5 Aug 2018 | Lauren Child | Erik Satie | Gnossienne No. 1 | Performer: Lang Lang. |
Vivaldi | Mandolin Concerto in C (2nd mvt) | Performer: Sol Goichberg. Orchestra: New York Sinfonietta. Conductor: Max Goberman. | ||
Traditional Mongolian | Erkhem Tur | Ensemble: Ensemble. | ||
Björk | Joga | Performer: Björk. Orchestrator: ONE LITTLE INDIAN. | ||
Puccini | Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La Rondine) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Pritchard. Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. | ||
Arvo Pärt | Spiegel im Spiegel | Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe. | ||
W. A. Mozart | Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (2nd mvt) | Performer: Sabine Meyer, orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden, conductor: Hans Vonk | ||
2 Sep 2018 | Eugenia Cheng | Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1st mvt: Moderato) | Performer: Sergei Rachmaninoff. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski. |
Bach | "Erbarme dich" ( St Matthew Passion ) | Michael Chance (countertenor), English Baroque Soloists, conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner | ||
Leoš Janáček | The Makropulos Case (Final scene) | Singer: Elisabeth Söderström. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. | ||
Schubert | Der Doppelganger (Schwanengesang) | Performer: Justus Zeyen. Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. | ||
Britten | From the gutter... (Peter Grimes, act 2) | Singer: Heather Harper. Singer: Elizabeth Bainbridge. Singer: Teresa Cahill. Singer: Anne Pashley. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Colin Davis. | ||
Mahler | Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)(excerpt) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. | ||
Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (act 3, excerpt) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Singer: Gerald Finley. | ||
9 Sep 2018 | Steve Punt | Felix Mendelssohn | Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Orchestra: Champs-Élysées Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. |
Dave Brubeck | Blue Rondo a la Turk | Performer: Dave Brubeck. | ||
Dudley Moore | Bedazzled | Performer: Peter Cook. Ensemble: Dudley Moore Trio. | ||
Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto (3rd mvt: Allegro, ma non tanto) | Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. | ||
Debussy | Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner) | Performer: Jacopo Salvatori. | ||
Scott Joplin | Solace | Performer: Alexander Peskanov. | ||
Shostakovich | Waltz II (Jazz Suite No. 2) | Orchestra: Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. | ||
16 Sep 2018 | Bella Hardy | Bella Hardy | Stars | Performer: Bella Hardy. |
Puccini | Madame Butterfly (final scene) | Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Singer: Maria Callas. | ||
Gian Piero Reverberi | Magico incontro | Ensemble: Rondò Veneziano. | ||
Alistair Anderson | On Cheviot Hills | Performer: Alistair Anderson. Ensemble: The Lindsays. | ||
Traditional music | The Wandering Girl | Singer: Freda Palmer. | ||
Zhou Ziping | Sacred Cloud Music | Performer: Yo-Yo Ma. Ensemble: Silk Road Ensemble. | ||
Debussy | Reverie | Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. | ||
Philip Stopford | Lully, Lulla, Lullay | Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Conductor: Philip Stopford. | ||
30 Sep 2018 | Bel Mooney | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 7 in F major (4th mvt: "Thème Russe") | Ensemble: Vlachovo kvarteto Praha |
W. A. Mozart | Piano Sonata in A major, K. 331 (2nd mvt: Menuetto) | Performer: Daniel Barenboim | ||
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Stabat Mater (opening) | Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Andreas Scholl. | ||
Bach | Partita for Violin No. 3 (1st mvt: Preludio) | Performer: Nigel Kennedy | ||
Tony Kinsey | Tonight I write sadly | Performer: Christopher Logue. Ensemble: Red Bird Jazz. | ||
Beethoven | Sonata in F major, Op. 24 ("Spring") (1st mvt: Allegro) | Performers: Gidon Kremer (violin), Martha Argerich (piano) | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Laudate Dominum" ( Vesperae solennes de Dominica , K. 321) | Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa, orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Colin Davis | ||
7 Oct 2018 | Ed Vulliamy | Verdi | Triumphal March (Aida) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. |
B.B. King | There Must Be A Better World Somewhere | Featured Artist: Dr. John | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Non più andrai" ( The Marriage of Figaro ) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini, singer: Giuseppe Taddei | ||
Traditional Macedonian | Eleno kerko | Performer: Amira Medunjanin. | ||
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) (3rd mvt: Adagio) | Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Ančerl. | ||
Schubert | Piano Sonata in G major, D.894 (3rd mvt: Menuetto) | Performer: Paul Lewis. | ||
Joan Baez | Deportee (Plane wreck at Los Gatos) | Performer: Joan Baez. | ||
14 Oct 2018 | John Bird | Brahms | Academic Festival Overture | Orchestra: New Philhamonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli. |
Tchaikovsky | Dance of the Reed Pipes (The Nutcracker) | Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov. | ||
Grieg | In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt) | Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo. | ||
Wagner | Overture: Tannhauser | Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. | ||
Mike Westbrook | I See Thy Form | Performer: Mike Westbrook. | ||
Steve Reich | The Cave | Ensemble: Steve Reich and Musicians. Conductor: Paul Hillier. | ||
Carl Maria von Weber | Overture: Der Freischütz | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis. | ||
21 Oct 2018 | Richard Powers | Bizet | Jeux d'Enfants: La Toupie | Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. |
John Dowland | Time Stands Still | Performer: Ronn McFarlane. Singer: Julianne Baird. | ||
Béla Bartók | String Quartet No. 4 (2nd mvt: Prestissimo) | Ensemble: Guarneri Quartet. | ||
Mahler | Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Ruckert-Lieder) | Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli. Singer: Janet Baker. | ||
Charles Ives | Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord, Massachusetts) (3rd mvt: The Alcotts) | Performer: Gilbert Kalish. | ||
Caroline Shaw | Partita for Eight Voices (1st mvt: Allemande) | Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth. | ||
Bach | Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100 | Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan, conductor: Masaaki Suzuki | ||
Traditional music | The Parting Glass | Ensemble: The Wailin' Jennys. | ||
4 Nov 2018 | Anil Seth | Chopin | Prelude in D-flat major ("Raindrop") | Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. |
Bach | Magnificat in D major | Conductor: Stephen Cleobury, singer: Susan Gritton | ||
Vivaldi | Concerto in B-flat major for violin and strings (2nd mvt: Andante) | Performer: Giacomo Agazzini. Performer: Ezio Bosso. Orchestra: Orquesta sinfónica de Madrid. | ||
Walter Donaldson | Love me or leave me | Singer: Nina Simone. | ||
Billy Taylor | I wish I knew (how it would feel to be free) | km_ Dick Dallas. Ensemble: Billy Taylor Trio. | ||
Enrique Granados | Spanish Dance No. 5 | Performer: John Williams. | ||
Traditional Indian | Gayati Mantra | Performer: Anuradha Paudwal. | ||
Lin-Manuel Miranda | Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton) | Performer: Lin-Manuel Miranda. Performer: Renée Elise Goldsberry. Performer: Alex Lacamoire. | ||
11 Nov 2018 | Margaret MacMillan | Ravel | La valse | Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
Traditional Welsh | Men of Harlech | Choir: The Fron Male Voice Choir. Conductor: Ann Atkinson. | ||
Traditional Scottish | Road to the Isles | Singer: Andy Stewart. | ||
Richard Strauss | Metamorphosen | Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Iona Brown. | ||
Puccini | Signore ascolta! (Turandot) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Singer: Montserrat Caballé. | ||
Michael Tippett | Steal Away (A Child of Our Time) | Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tippett. Singer: Faye Robinson. Singer: Jon Garrison. Choir: CBSO Chorus. | ||
25 Nov 2018 | Rebecca Stott | Paul Simon | American Tune | Performer: Paul Simon. |
Rachmaninoff | Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 | Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Ensemble: Virtuosi. | ||
Traditional music | Wayfaring Stranger | Singer: Andreas Scholl. | ||
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Stabat Mater | Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: James Bowman. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. | ||
Traditional music | Sha, Sha, Di Shviger Kumt | Ensemble: Chicago Klezmer Ensemble. | ||
W. A. Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 (2nd mvt: Andante) | Performer: Géza Anda, ensemble: Camerata Salzburg | ||
Leonard Cohen | Suzanne | Performer: Leonard Cohen. | ||
2 Dec 2018 | David Rieff | Orlande de Lassus | Vide homo (Lagrime di San Pietro) | Choir: Gallicantus. Conductor: Gabriel Crouch. |
Henry Purcell | Come Ye Sons of Art | Singer: Alfred Deller. Singer: John Whitworth. Conductor: Anthony Lewis. | ||
Shostakovich | Passacaglia (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) | Performer: Matthias Havinga. | ||
Traditional Scottish | Mo Ghile Mear (My Dashing Darling) | Performer: Iarla Ó Lionáird. Performer: Mary Black. Performer: Mary Ann Kennedy. | ||
Bach | Ich habe genug, BWV 82 | Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, orchestra: Emmanuel Music, conductor: Craig Smith | ||
Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (3rd mvt: "Heiliger Dankgesang") | Ensemble: Belcea Quartet | ||
Traditional music | Shady Grove | Performer: Tony Rice. Performer: Peter Rowan. | ||
16 Dec 2018 | Daniel Evans | Stephen Sondheim | Too Many Mornings (Follies) | Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Paul Gemignani. Singer: Barbara Cook. Singer: George Hearn. |
Leonard Bernstein | Candide – Overture | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leonard Bernstein | ||
Britten | Now the Great Bear and the Pleaides (Peter Grimes) | Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Colin Davis. Singer: Jon Vickers. | ||
Donizetti | Ah! Mes Amis (La Fille du Regiment) | Orchestra: Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza. Singer: Juan Diego Flórez. | ||
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique") (1st mvt) | Performer: Daniel Barenboim | ||
Traditional Welsh | Ar Hyd y Nos | Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Gareth Jones. Singer: Bryn Terfel. | ||
23 Dec 2018 | Jan Ravens | Camille Saint-Saëns | Mon coeur s'ouvre (Samson et Delilah) | Orchestra: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. Conductor: Georges Prêtre. Singer: Maria Callas. |
Gluck | What is Life? (Orfeo ed Euridice) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. | ||
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | Born To Run | |||
Bach | St Matthew Passion (opening) | Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien, conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor | ||
Vivaldi | The Four Seasons Recomposed | km_ Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra. Conductor: André de Ridder. | ||
Wagner | Mild und Leise... (Tristan und Isolde) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt. Singer: Jessye Norman. | ||
Leonard Bernstein | Make our Garden grow (Candide) | Ensemble: Original Broadcast Cast. | ||
Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer |
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6 Jan 2019 | Clarke Peters | Joan Armatrading | Love and Affection | Singer: Joan Armatrading. |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk | Bamboula, Op. 2 | Performer: Roger Lord. | ||
George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue | Performer: Freddy Kempf. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton. | ||
Heitor Villa-Lobos | Prelude No. 1 | Performer: Eduardo Fernández. | ||
Ravel | Lever du Jour (Daphnis et Chloe) | Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin. | ||
Debussy | La Mer | Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. | ||
Rachmaninoff | Prelude in C-sharp minor | Performer: Nat King Cole. Performer: Oscar Moore. Performer: Johnny Miller. | ||
13 Jan 2019 | Sigrid Rausing | Schubert | Standchen (Schwanengesang) | Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. |
W. A. Mozart | Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Martin Fröst, orchestra: Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen | ||
Thorstein Bergman | Spelmannen | Performer: Thorstein Bergman. | ||
Felix Mendelssohn | Song without Words, Op. 109 | Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Sergio Tiempo. | ||
Brahms | Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel | Performer: Murray Perahia. | ||
Cole Porter | Anything Goes | Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. | ||
Beethoven | "Ode to Joy" (Symphony No. 9) | Performer: Igor Levit (piano), arrangement: Franz Liszt | ||
20 Jan 2019 | Tim Firth | Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni | Concerto in F major for 2 oboes and strings, Op. 9, No. 3 (1st mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Catherine Latham. Performer: Anthony Robson. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage. |
Bach | Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (1st mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Renaud Capuçon, orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe | ||
Frederick Delius | 2 Aquarelles for string orchestra, arr. Fenby...: No. 2; Gaily, but not too quick | Eric Fenby. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestrator: Deutsche Gramophon | ||
Aaron Copland | Dance of the Adolescent (Grohg) | Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop. | ||
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki | Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) (excerpt) | Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman. Singer: Dawn Upshaw. | ||
Ligeti | Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (No. 1: Allegro con spirito) | Ensemble: Claude Debussy Wind Quintet. | ||
27 Jan 2019 | Lisa Appignanesi | Monteverdi | Possente spirto (L'Orfeo) | Ensemble: I Barrochisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. |
W. A. Mozart | "Voi che sapete" ( The Marriage of Figaro ) | Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Claudio Abbado, singer: Cecilia Bartoli | ||
Debussy | Premiere Rhapsodie | Performer: James Campbell. Performer: Glenn Gould. | ||
Kurt Weill | Surabaya Johnny | Singer: Lotte Lenya. | ||
Jimmy Cox | Nobody knows when you're down and out | Singer: Bessie Smith. | ||
Laurie Anderson | O Superman | Performer: Laurie Anderson. | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | Peter and the Wolf | Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Libor Pešek. Narrator: Lenny Henry. | ||
3 Feb 2019 | Oliver Ford Davies | Haydn | String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 50, no. 1 (Finale) | Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet. |
Stravinsky | Petrushka (excerpt) | Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. | ||
Elgar | Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Piers Lane. Ensemble: Vellinger Quartet. | ||
Alban Berg | Violin Concerto (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. | ||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Linden Lea | Performer: Tim Laycock. | ||
W. A. Mozart | The Marriage of Figaro (act 4, finale) | Orchestra: Vienna Symphony, conductor: Karl Böhm, singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | ||
10 Feb 2019 | Preti Taneja | Traditional music | Abhi to main jawan hoon | Performer: Malika Pukhraj,. |
Vivaldi | Nulla in mundo pax sincera | Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood. Singer: Emma Kirkby. | ||
Ilham al-Madfai | Baghdad | Performer: Ilham al-Madfai. | ||
Zakir Hussain | Raga Chandrakauns | Performer: Hariprasad Chaurasia. Performer: Zakir Hussain. | ||
Shostakovich | King Lear (Prelude and Song of Cordelia) | Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michail Jurowski. | ||
Philip Glass | Why Does Somebody Have to Die? (The Hours) | Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Glass. | ||
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Hamd (Louange a Dieu) | Performer: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. | ||
24 Feb 2019 | Julian Baggini | Ravel | Violin Sonata in G (2nd mvt: Blues) | Performer: Jean-Jacques Kantorow. Performer: Jacques Rouvier. |
Brahms | Symphony No. 4 in E minor (2nd mvt: Andante moderato) | Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati. | ||
Karol Szymanowski | Mazurka No. 12 | Performer: Marc-André Hamelin. | ||
Michael Nyman | String Quartet No. 2 (1st mvt) | Performer: Bălănescu Quartet. | ||
Jessica Curry | Always (Hebridean Mix) | Performer: Jessica Curry. | ||
Mark Hollis | The Rainbow | km_ Tim Friese-Greene. Ensemble: Talk Talk. | ||
Antonín Dvořák | Serenade for Strings in E major (1st mvt) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: Christopher Warren-Green | ||
3 Mar 2019 | Rachel Parris | Rachel Parris | Don't Take my Advice | Performer: Rachel Parris. |
Tom Lehrer | Poisoning Pigeons in the Park | Performer: Tom Lehrer. | ||
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade) | Performer: Michel Schwalbé. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. | ||
Thomas Tallis | Te lucis ante terminum | Choir: Magdala Choir. Conductor: David Skinner. | ||
Leonard Bernstein | The Dance at the Gym (West Side Story) | Performer: Members of the Cast. | ||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Serenade to Music | Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best. | ||
Debussy | Arabesque No. 1 | Performer: Jacques Rouvier. | ||
Cole Porter | My Heart Belongs to Daddy | Performer: Oscar Peterson. | ||
10 Mar 2019 | Greta Scacchi | Handel | "Ombra mai fu" (from Serse ) | Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor: Sir Roger Norrington, singer: Andreas Scholl |
Maria Cosway | Mormora | Performer: Mary Nichols. Performer: Jan Walters. | ||
Erik Satie | Gnossienne No. 1 | Performer: Lang Lang. | ||
Vivian Ellis | I'm on a See-Saw | Performer: Fats Waller. | ||
Jimmy Giuffre | Gotta Dance | Ensemble: The Jimmy Giuffre Trio. | ||
Richard Robbins | To the Monastery/End Titles (Heat and Dust) | Performer: Nishat Khan. | ||
Bach | Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 | Performer: Martha Argerich | ||
Joseph Canteloube | Bailero (Songs of the Auvergne) | Singer: Frederica von Stade. | ||
17 Mar 2019 | Mark Morris | Germaine Tailleferre | Fandango | Performer: Marc Clinton. Performer: Nicole Narboni. |
Lou Harrison | Largo Ostinato | Performer: Linda Birman-Hall. | ||
Lou Harrison | Symphony No. 3 (4th mvt: Largo Ostinato) | Orchestra: Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies. | ||
Handel | "Beato in ver chi può" (Italian Duet No. 18, HWV 181) | Singers: Mária Zádori (soprano), Paul Esswood (countertenor) | ||
Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in G major, Kk2 | Performer: Vojtech Spurny. | ||
Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in G major, Kk391 | Performer: Michelangelo Carbonara. | ||
Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata in A major, Kk208 | Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. | ||
Erik Satie | Perpetual Tango (Sports et Divertissements) | Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet. | ||
31 Mar 2019 | Uta Frith | Bedřich Smetana | The Moldau (Ma Vlast) | Orchestra: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit. |
Jacques Offenbach | Les Oiseaux dans la Charmille (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) | Singer: Joan Sutherland. | ||
Fred Frith | From the Backstretch | Performer: Fred Frith. | ||
Beethoven | Overture: Fidelio | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor: Riccardo Chailly | ||
Hildegard von Bingen | O Jerusalem | Choir: Gothic Voices. Conductor: Christopher Page. | ||
Clara Schumann | Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17 (1st mvt: Andante) | Performers: Antje Weithaas, Tanja Tetzlaff, Gunilla Süssmann | ||
Friedrich Hollaender | Raus mit den Mannern! | Singer: Ute Lemper. | ||
7 Apr 2019 | Jo Brand | Bach | Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 | Performer: Harold Britton |
Felix Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1st mvt) | Performer: Anne-Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. | ||
Michael Nyman | Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract) | Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band. | ||
Brahms | Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a | Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. | ||
Carl Orff | O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) | Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Choir: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 ("Pastorale") (excerpt) | London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Wyn Morris | ||
Holst | Jupiter – The Bringer of Jollity ( The Planets ) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Vladimir Jurowski | ||
14 Apr 2019 | Roger Kneebone | François Couperin | Les Idees Heureuses | Performer: Sophie Yates. |
Bach | Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor (2nd mvt: Largo) | Performers: Rachel Podger, Bojan Čičić, ensemble: Brecon Baroque | ||
Charles Lloyd | Dancing Water, Big Sur to Bahia | Performer: Charles Lloyd. | ||
Pete Atkin | The Secret Drinker | Performer: Pete Atkin. | ||
Schubert | String Quintet in C major, D.956 | Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta. | ||
Handel | "As steals the morn" (from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato ) | Singers: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), The English Concert, conductor: Andrew Manze | ||
28 Apr 2019 | David Wilson | Jimmy McHugh | Let's Get Lost | Performer: Chet Baker. |
Jean Sibelius | Andante Festivo | Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. | ||
Leonard Bernstein | America (West Side Story) | Performer: Unknown. | ||
Aaron Copland | Appalachian Spring | Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. | ||
Schubert | String Quartet (Death and the Maiden (4th mvt: Presto) | Ensemble: Takács Quartet. | ||
Bach | "Aria" ( Goldberg Variations , BWV 988) | Performer: Glenn Gould | ||
Craig Armstrong | Glasgow Love Theme (Love Actually) | Performer: Unknown. | ||
5 May 2019 | Barbara Hosking | Malcolm Arnold | The Padstow Lifeboat | Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. |
Camille Saint-Saëns | L'amour viens aider ma faiblesse (Samson et Dalila) | Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Georges Prêtre. Singer: Shirley Verrett. | ||
Jacob Jacobs | Bei mir bistu shein | Ensemble: Budapest Klezmer Band. | ||
Richard Strauss | "Grossmächtige Prinzessin} ( Ariadne auf Naxos ) | Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur. Singer: Edita Gruberová. | ||
Elgar | Cockaigne Overture | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Heath. | ||
Schubert | Der Leiermann (Winterreise) | Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: James Gilchrist. | ||
Britten | Epilogue (Billy Budd) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Singer: Philip Langridge. | ||
19 May 2019 | Jess Robinson | Alex Silverman | It Must be Love | Performer: Jess Robinson. |
Samuel Barber | Sure on this Shining Night | Choir: Cambridge University Chamber Choir. Conductor: Timothy Brown. | ||
Gordon Young | Prelude in Classic Style | Performer: Simon Lindley. | ||
Traditional Yiddish | Traditional Yiddish Song | Performer: Rosi Schul. Performer: Jules Ruben. | ||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves. | ||
Roger Ramirez | Lover Man | Performer: Billie Holiday. | ||
Debussy | Salut Printemps (Le Printemps) | Choir: Toronto Children's Chorus. Singer: Jean Ashworth Bartle. | ||
Gabriel Fauré | Sanctus; Pie Jesu (Requiem) | Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Singer: Sandrine Piau. Choir: Accentus. | ||
2 Jun 2019 | Robert Icke | Chopin | Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 | Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. |
François Couperin | Les Barricades Mysterieuses | Performer: Iddo Bar-Shaï. | ||
Brian Wilson | God Only Knows | Ensemble: The Beach Boys. | ||
Richard Rodgers | Little Girl Blue | Performer: Nina Simone. | ||
Pérotin | Viderunt Omnes | Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble. | ||
Bob Dylan | Not Dark Yet | Performer: Bob Dylan. | ||
Monteverdi | Pur ti miro (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) | Ensemble: L'Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Núria Rial. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. | ||
Laura Marling | How Can I | Performer: Laura Marling. | ||
9 Jun 2019 | Lucasta Miller | Carl Maria von Weber | Wolf's Glen Scene (Der Freischütz, act 2) | Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber. Singer: Theo Adam. |
Vincenzo Bellini | Casta Diva (Norma, act 1) | Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. Singer: Maria Callas. | ||
Monteverdi | Il Ritorno d'Ulisse (Final Scene) | Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Singer: Sven Olof Eliasson. Singer: Norma Lerer. | ||
Clara Schumann | Liebst du um Schoenheit (Op. 12, No. 12) | Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. | ||
Bach | Prelude (Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007) | Performer: Steven Isserlis | ||
Hans Werner Henze | Das Paradies (6 Songs from the Arabian) | Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge. | ||
16 Jun 2019 | June Spencer | Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. |
Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (3rd mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. | ||
Vivaldi | Winter (The Four Seasons) | Orchestra: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott. | ||
Felix Mendelssohn | Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. | ||
Puccini | O Soave Fanciulla (La Bohème) | Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. | ||
John Lennon And Paul Mccartney | Yesterday | km_ Paul McCartney. Performer: Plácido Domingo. | ||
Rossini | Duetto buffo di due gatti | Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Ann Murray. | ||
30 Jun 2019 | Harry Enfield | Verdi | Partite? Crudele... (Rigoletto, act 1) | Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: James Levine. |
Verdi | Harry Enfield and Chums – Signature Tune arr. from Verdi's Rigoletto | Music arranger: Julia St. John | ||
Verdi | Soldiers' Chorus ( Il trovatore ) | Orchestra: La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, conductor: Riccardo Muti | ||
Elgar | Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (3rd mvt: Allegro molto) | Performer: Yehudi Menuhin. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Elgar. | ||
Schubert | Piano Sonata in A minor, D.845 (1st mvt: Moderato) | Performer: Alfred Brendel. | ||
Rossini | Largo al Factotum (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) | Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Singer: Thomas Allen. | ||
Samuel Barber | Adagio for Strings | Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton. | ||
Paul Oakenfold | Another Day | Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini. Ensemble: Skip Raiders. Featured Artist: Jada. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Queen of the Night aria" ( The Magic Flute ) | Singer: Florence Foster Jenkins | ||
Modest Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov (act 1, excerpt) | Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel. Singer: John Tomlinson. | ||
7 Jul 2019 | Sarah Langford (Worldcat) | Bach | Prelude (Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007) | Performer: Peter Gregson, arrangement: Peter Gregson |
Witold Lutosławski | Symphony No. 4 (excerpt) | Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen. | ||
Paul Dukas | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: James Levine. | ||
Messiaen | "Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus" (Praise to the Eternity of Jesus) (from Quartet for the End of Time ) | Performers: Benjamin Hughes (cello) VIAF 13164600579237672315, Kathron Sturrock (piano) | ||
Morten Lauridsen | O Magnum Mysterium | Choir: New College Oxford Choir. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom. | ||
Parov Stelar | Clap Your Hands | Performer: Parov Stelar. | ||
14 Jul 2019 | James Burke | W. A. Mozart | Clarinet Quintet, K. 581 (2nd mvt: Larghetto) | Performer: Jörg Widmann, ensemble: Arcanto Quartett |
Traditional Italian | I' te vurria vasà | Singer: Miranda Martino. | ||
Aaron Copland | Fanfare for the Common Man | Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. | ||
Joseph Canteloube | Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne) | Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida. Singer: Frederica von Stade. | ||
Isaac Albéniz | Asturias | Performer: Andrés Segovia. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Soave sia il vento" ( Così fan tutte ) | Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor: Neville Marriner, singers: Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Allen | ||
Handel | "Sound an alarm" (from Judas Maccabeus ) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Malcolm Sargent, singer: Richard Lewis | ||
28 Jul 2019 | Peter Piot | Leonora Duarte | Sinfonia de decimi toni | Ensemble: Transports public. Conductor: Thomas Baeté. |
Bach | "Kommt, ihr Töchter" ( St Matthew Passion ) | Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Ghent chorus & orchestra, conductor: Philippe Herreweghe | ||
Anonymous work | Si Naani | Performer: Toumani Diabaté. | ||
Gluck | Che faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) | Orchestra: Southern Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Stiedry. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Der Hölle Rache" ( The Magic Flute ) | Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, conductor: René Jacobs, singer: Anna-Kristiina Kaappola | ||
Umberto Giordano | La Mamma Morta (Andrea Chenier) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. Singer: Maria Callas. | ||
Papa Wemba | Mi Amor | Performer: Papa Wemba. | ||
18 Aug 2019 | Hannah Sullivan | Richard Strauss | Act 3: "Marie Theres'!" ( Der Rosenkavalier ) | Singers: Christa Ludwig, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. |
Bach | Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011 (Prelude) | Performer: Edgar Meyer (double bass) | ||
Amy Winehouse | You Know I'm No Good | Featured Artist: Ghostface Killah | ||
Antonín Dvořák | Cello Concerto in B minor (1st mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Jacqueline du Pré, orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Daniel Barenboim | ||
Philip Rosseter | What then is love but mourning? | Performer: Dorothy Linell. Singer: Steven Rickards. | ||
Schubert | String Quintet in C (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet. | ||
Nina Simone | I want a little sugar in my bowl | Performer: Nina Simone. | ||
Stravinsky | The Dove Descending | Choir: New College Oxford Choir. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom. | ||
25 Aug 2019 | James Ellroy | Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major ("Hammerklavier") (3rd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Emil Gilels |
Rachmaninoff | Etude-tableau in E-flat minor, Op. 39, No. 5 | Performer: Van Cliburn. | ||
Wagner | Tristan und Isolde (Prelude) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer. | ||
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 10 (1st mvt: Moderato) | Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. | ||
Mahler | Symphony No. 5 (4th mvt: Adagietto) | Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík. | ||
Bruckner | Symphony No. 7 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons. | ||
8 Sep 2019 | David Cannadine | Camille Saint-Saëns | Danse Macabre | Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy. |
Arthur Sullivan | Overture: Iolanthe | Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. | ||
Haydn | The Heavens are Telling (The Creation) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. | ||
William Walton | Symphony No. 1 (1st mvt: Allegro Assai) | Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner. | ||
Henry Purcell | Fairest Isle (King Arthur) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Lewis. Singer: Heather Harper. | ||
Gregorio Allegri | Miserere | Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips. | ||
15 Sep 2019 | Siri Hustvedt | Hildegard von Bingen | Ave generosa | Singer: Margaret Philpot. Choir: Gothic Voices. Conductor: Christopher Page. |
Bach | Cantata No. 147: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (excerpt) | Choir: The Sixteen, conductor: Harry Christophers | ||
Berlioz | Villanelle (Nuits d'Ete) | Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov. | ||
Anton Webern | 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (excerpt) | Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez. | ||
John Cage | Sonata V (Sonatas and Interludes) | Performer: Boris Berman. | ||
Meredith Monk | Scared Song (Acts from Under and Above) | Performer: Meredith Monk. Performer: Nurit Tilles. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Là ci darem la mano" ( Don Giovanni ) | Singers: Bernd Weikl, Lucia Popp, orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Georg Solti | ||
Sophie Auster | Black Water | Performer: Sophie Auster. | ||
22 Sep 2019 | Jock Stirrup | Josquin des Prez | De profundis clamavi | Choir: Orlando Consort. |
Wagner | Leb' wohl (Die Walküre, act 3) | Singer: Hans Hotter. Orchestra: Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele. Conductor: Joseph Kielberth. | ||
Bach | "Dona nobis pacem" (Mass in B minor) | Choir: Monteverdi Choir, conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner | ||
Felix Mendelssohn | Octet (4th mvt: Presto) | Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet. | ||
George Benjamin | Written on Skin (Scene 8) | Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: George Benjamin. Singer: Barbara Hannigan. Singer: Christopher Purves. | ||
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appasionata" (3rd mvt: Finale) | Performer: Wilhelm Kempff | ||
Miles Davis | Flamenco Sketches | Performer: Miles Davis. | ||
6 Oct 2019 | Deborah Levy | Kurt Weill | Alabama Song | Singer: Lotte Lenya. |
Gluck | What is Life (Orfeo ed Euridice) | Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. | ||
Billy Cowie | La Lune Blanche | Singer: Lucie Robson. Singer: Cathryn Robson. Piano: Billy Cowie. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Soave sia il vento" ( Così fan tutte ) | Singers: Yvonne Minton, Margaret Price, Geraint Evans, orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: Otto Klemperer | ||
Leonard Cohen | Night Comes On | Singer: Leonard Cohen. | ||
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (Pathétique) (1st mvt: Andante) | Performer: Daniel Barenboim | ||
Traditional music | Black is the colour of my true love's hair | Singer: Nina Simone. | ||
13 Oct 2019 | Peter Tatchell | John Barry | The Beyondness of Things | Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. |
Sergei Prokofiev | The Battle on the Ice (Alexander Nevsky) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn. | ||
W. A. Mozart | "Der Hölle Rache" ( The Magic Flute ) | Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Georg Solti, singer: Cristina Deutekom | ||
Gerry Mulligan | Venus de Milo | Performer: Prince. | ||
Xian Xinghai | Yellow River Concerto | Performer: Lang Lang. Orchestra: China Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Long Yu. | ||
Samuel Barber | Adagio for Strings | Performer: William Orbit. Music Arranger: William Orbit. | ||
Billy Cobham | Bolinas | Performer: Billy Cobham. | ||
20 Oct 2019 | Selina Cadell | Traditional music | O Waly Waly | Performer: Natalie Burch. Singer: Robert Murray. |
Stravinsky | No Word from Tom (The Rake's Progress) | Singer: Cathryn Pope. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. | ||
Noël Coward | I Travel Alone | Performer: Noël Coward. | ||
Debussy | La Mer | Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Daniele Gatti. | ||
Elizabeth Poston | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Choir: King's College Cambridge Choir. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. | ||
Handel | "Son qual stanco pellegrino" (from Arianna in Creta ) | Singer: Theodora Baka | ||
27 Oct 2019 | Venki Ramakrishnan | Bach | Concerto in D for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (2nd mvt: Largo) | Performers: Herman Krebbers, Arthur Grumiaux, ensemble: Les Solistes Romands, conductor: Árpád Gérecz |
W. A. Mozart | Violin Sonata No. 28 in E-flat, K. 380 (3rd mvt: Rondo: Allegro) | Performers: Henryk Szeryng (violin), Ingrid Haebler (piano) | ||
Bach | Violin Partita No. 3 in E (Prelude) | Performer: Nathan Milstein | ||
Brahms | Piano Quartet No. 3 in C (3rd mvt: Andante) | Performer: Arthur Rubinstein. Performer: Guarneri Quartet. | ||
Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 3 in A (3rd mvt: Adagio – Allegro vivace) | Performers: Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) | ||
Schubert | Piano Trio in E-flat (2nd mvt: Andante con moto) | Ensemble: Horszowski Trio. | ||
3 Nov 2019 | Philippa Perry [4] | Chopin | Nocturne in F-sharp major, Op. 15, No. 2 | Performer: Brigitte Engerer. |
Milton Ager | Hard-hearted Hanah the Vamp of Savannah | Performer: Dorothy Provine. | ||
Brahms | Violin Concerto in D major (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Min Kym. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ("Choral") (4th mvt: Finale) | Conductor: Seiji Ozawa | ||
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5 in D minor (4th mvt: Finale) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. | ||
Verdi | La Traviata (act 1, excerpt) | Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi. Singer: Rolando Villazón. Singer: Anna Netrebko. Choir: Chor der Wiener Staatsoper. | ||
Rufus Wainwright | Oh What a World | Performer: Rufus Wainwright. | ||
10 Nov 2019 | Ken Loach | Brahms | Academic Festival Overture | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop. |
Ewan MacColl | Dirty Old Town | Singer: Ewan MacColl. Singer: Peggy Seeger. | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1st mvt: Allegro con brio) | Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Carlos Kleiber | ||
Traditional music | A Las Barricadas | Music Arranger: George Fenton. | ||
Tommy Makem | Four Green Fields | Performer: Jim McCann. Ensemble: The Dubliners. | ||
Dick Gaughan | Which Side are you On | Performer: Dick Gaughan. | ||
Pierre Degeyter | La Internacional | Music Arranger: George Fenton. | ||
W. A. Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major (2nd mvt) | Performer: Géza Anda, orchestra: Camerata Salzburg | ||
Schubert | Impromptu in G-flat major, D.899, no. 3 | Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. | ||
Antonín Dvořák | Cello Concerto in B minor (Finale: Allegro moderato) | Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich, orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic, conductor: Herbert von Karajan | ||
17 Nov 2019 | YolanDa Brown | YolanDa Brown | Million Billion Love | Performer: YolanDa Brown. |
Arthur Sullivan | Iolanthe – Overture | Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conductor: Andrew Penny | ||
Kamasi Washington | Desire | Performer: Kamasi Washington. | ||
Schubert | Impromptu in F minor, D.935, No. 1 | Performer: Rudolf Serkin. | ||
Leonard Bernstein | Maria | Performer: Dave Brubeck. Music Arranger: Dave Brubeck. | ||
Hans Zimmer | Earth | Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus. Conductor: Roderick Cox. | ||
Bobby McFerrin | Say Ladeo | Performer: Bobby McFerrin. Performer: Roger Treece. Performer: Lisa Fischer. Performer: Alex Acuña. | ||
Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World) (4th mvt: Allegro con fuoco) | Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra, conductor: Kevin John Edusei | ||
1 Dec 2019 | Hannah Rankin | Felix Mendelssohn | Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) | Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. |
Jean Sibelius | Finlandia | Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund. | ||
Tchaikovsky | Kuda, kuda (Eugene Onegin) | Singer: Stuart Burrows. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti. | ||
Jackson Browne | Take it easy | km_ Glenn Frey. Ensemble: Eagles. | ||
Engelbert Humperdinck | Evening Prayer (Hansel und Gretel) | Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. | ||
Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathetique) (Finale) | Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov. | ||
Scott Joplin | Maple Leaf Rag | Performer: Lang Lang. | ||
8 Dec 2019 | David Nott | Traditional Welsh | Myfanwy | Ensemble: Casi and the Blind Harpist. |
Elgar | Nimrod (Enigma Variations) | Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. | ||
Amadou & Mariam | Senegal Fast Food | Performer: Amadou & Mariam. | ||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | "The Lark Ascending" | Matthew Trusler (violin), Iain Burnside (piano) | ||
Debussy | Clair de lune | Performer: Stephen Hough. | ||
Traditional music Arabic | Ya Mayela al-Ghusoon | Performer: لينا شاماميان. | ||
Dave Charles | Llef (Deus Salutis) | Choir: Dunvant Male Choir. | ||
22 Dec 2019 | Matthew Bourne | Kenneth Sillito & Hamish Milne | The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol | |
Tchaikovsky | The Rose Adagio (The Sleeping Beauty, act 1) | Orchestra: Russian State Academy Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. | ||
Richard Rodgers | Climb Ev'ry Mountain (The Sound of Music) | Singer: Peggy Wood. | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | Aubade – Dance of the Girls with Lilies ( Romeo and Juliet ) | Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Marin Alsop | ||
Bernard Herrmann | The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Main Titles) | Orchestra: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman. | ||
Richard Sherman | Feed the Birds (Mary Poppins) | km_ Robert Sherman. Singer: Julie Andrews. | ||
Danny Elfman | Edward Scissorhands (Title Sequence) | Ensemble: Soundtrack. | ||
29 Dec 2019 | Darcey Bussell | W. A. Mozart | Introitus (Requiem) | Orchestra: London Mozart Players, choir: BBC Singers, conductor: Jane Glover |
Francis Poulenc | Laudamus Te (Gloria) | Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. | ||
Tchaikovsky | Pas de deux – Adagio ( The Sleeping Beauty , act 3) | Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; conductor: Mark Ermler | ||
Stravinsky | Pas de deux (Agon) | Orchestra: New York City Ballet Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Irving. | ||
Sylvius Leopold Weiss | Fantasia in C minor | Performer: Andrés Segovia. | ||
Noël Coward | Mad About the Boy | Singer: Dinah Washington. | ||
Gabriel Fauré | In Paradisum (Requiem) | Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Choir: Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. | ||
Sting | Roxanne | Ensemble: The Police. | ||
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