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A journey to Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia

Embark on a voyage of musical connections, each piece a port-of-call.

Destination: a place of choral beauty - Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia.

Your tour guide: Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn to St Cecilia

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Voices from Heaven: Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in C Major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": I. Allegro

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Orchestral Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 60.

  • Herbert Howells

    A Hymn for St Cecilia

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Howells: Requiem; St Paul's & Gloucester Services etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio, Op. 85: Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Concertante Chamber Players.
    • The Concertante Chamber Players Perform Schoenberg & Strauss.
    • Kleos Classics.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    Mark how readily each pliant string

    Singer: Gillian Fisher. Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Consort. Director: Robert King.
    • Hyperion.

  • Zequinha de Abreu

    Tico, tico

    Performer: Ethel Smith.
    • Living Era.

  • Trad.

    The Water is Wide

    Performer: Pete Seeger.
    • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa.
    • ECM.
    • 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Funeral Blues

    Performer: Steuart Bedford. Singer: Della Jones.
    • Naxos.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pas de deux (Swan Lake, Act 1)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • RICORDI.

  • Olivia Belli

    Grain Moon

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Luna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.

  • Cole Porter

    You Do Something to Me

    Choir: The Dick Hyman Chorus. Conductor: Dick Hyman.
    • Sony.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Elaine Fine. Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • DECCA.

  • John Bennet

    All Creatures Now

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Evening Chorus

    Performer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • Wake-Up Calls.
    • TARDIGRADE.
    • 10.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony (Playful Pizzicato)

    Orchestra: Metamorphosen Berlin. Conductor: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
    • Elgar-Britten-Warlock-Jenkins: Very British.
    • SONY.
    • 14.

  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Symphonie pour orgue No. 5, Op. 42 No. 1: 5. Toccata

    Performer: Pierre Cochereau.
    • The Art Of Pierre Cochereau.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 13:30
    成人快手 Radio 3