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Queen of the Night

13 Apr 2020

Look to the heavens

Classical

Look to the heavens

This week, we start and finish the programme looking to the heavens, with glorious music in between. In a time of pandemic and uncertainty, we can rely on the familiar, the certainty of beautiful music.

Playlist:  29 March 2020

  • Monteverdi: Beatus vir. Cambridge Singers/ John Rutter.
  • Respighi: Notturno (Nocturne). Konstantin Scherbakov, pno.
  • Debussy: Prelude, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair. Adapted for violin and piano.
  • Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1. Philippe Entremont, pno.
  • Beethoven: String Trio in G Major, Op.9 No.1: 2nd movement. Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Lynn Harrell (cello).
  • Sibelius: Andante Festivo.  Oslo PO/ Mariss Jansons.
  • Rutter: Gloria, 2nd movement, Andante. Choir of Kings College Cambridge/ Rutter.
  • Hovhaness
  • Bach: O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe (O eternal fire, o source of love), BWV 34. Bernarda Fink (Contralto), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner.

Photo: Respighi CD cover,  Naxos.

 

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