The perfect classical half hour
Amina Alaoui sings fado, there's tragic music from Verdi, and upbeat music from Bach. Gesualdo provides darkness, Fanny Mendelssohn joy and Eric Coates the bustle of 1930s London.
The Moroccan-born singer Amina Alaoui sings Fado Al-Mu'tamid from her album Arco Iris. Before that we hear the fingers of pianist Nikolai Lugansky flying through Liszt's Feux-follets, and we start with tragedy in the form of the overture to Act 3 of Verdi's La Traviata. Some lively music for string quartet from Fanny Mendelssohn follows Amina Alaoui singing fado, then we sink into the darkness of Gesualdo's Tenebrae. Some upbeat Bach cleanses the palate, and we end in the bustling heart of Covent Garden, part of Eric Coates's London Suite from the 1930s.
Producer: Nick Holmes
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Franz Schubert
Die Vogel, D.691
Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata Act 3; Prelude
Orchestra: Columbia S O.. Conductor: Thomas Schippers. -
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Franz Liszt
Transcendental Study No 5 in B flat major, 'Feux-follets'
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. -
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罢谤盲诲
Fado Al-Mu'tamid
Singer: Amina Alaoui. -
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Fanny Mendelssohn
String quartet in E flat major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne. -
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Carlo Gesualdo
Tenebrae factae sunt
Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor for oboe, violin and strings, BWV 1060; 3rd mvt
Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. -
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Eric Coates
Covent Garden (London Suite)
Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
Broadcasts
- Thu 10 Oct 2019 19:00成人快手 Radio 3
- Wed 25 May 2022 19:00成人快手 Radio 3
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