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Bartok, Nils Frahm, Handel

The 'Hungarian sneezes' of Bartok's spicy First Rhapsody warm your cockles this evening, along with the intimate comfort blanket of Nils Frahm's Merry, and a spritely ode to love.

The "Hungarian sneezes" of Bartok's spicy First Rhapsody warm your cockles this evening, along with the intimate comfort blanket of Nils Frahm's Merry and Handel's spritely ode to love, Tornami a vagheggiar. Then there's Byrd's bold, echoing six-voice motet Attolite Portas ("open up your doors"), the chiming gamelan of Javanese court music, and a jaunty Marche des Combattants - Lully's celebration of King Louis XIV's victory against Franche-Comt茅. And there's time for a playful salon-oriented scherzo from Borodin's Second Quartet - a piece given an unexpected new life with the lyrics 鈥楤aubles, bangles and beads鈥� in the musical Kismet.

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Mon 1 Feb 2021 19:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Rhapsody no.1 Sz.87

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • William Byrd

    Atollite portas

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
    • Obsidian.
    • 11.

  • Traditional Javanese

    Jipang Prawa

    Performer: Mr Sulaeman. Performer: Mr Katiyo. Performer: Mr Sudarga. Performer: Mr Setu. Performer: Mr Suryabrata. Performer: Mr Sukaya.

  • Nils Frahm

    Merry

    Performer: Nils Frahm.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Marche des Combattants en rondeau (Alceste)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets nos 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Tornami a vagheggiar (Alcina)

    Singer: Kathleen Battle. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • EMI.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 2 Nov 2018 19:00
    成人快手 Radio 3
  • Mon 1 Feb 2021 19:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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