This Sunday, we welcome acclaimed conductor, composer and cellist Edward Longstaff for a new weekly feature where he will be sharing his knowledge of a short piece of music in Edward’s Insights
Handel: Water Music Suite No 2 in D major 2nd movement Allegro alla Hornpipe – a regal start to the show originally premiered on the River Thames in 1717
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 2 Solveig’s Song – listen to why Solveig was singing this tender song
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 2nd movement Adagio – hear what Mozart said about this and other compositions he sent to a Prince
EDWARD’S INSIGHTS Part 1 Saint Saens The Swan
Albinoni: Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ – used in the film Gallipoli for its emotional intensity
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C 1st movement Andante non troppo allegro moderato – hear how Tchaikovsky describes this composition as ‘from the heart’
Borodin: String Quartet No 2 in D major 3rd movement Notturno andante – dedicated to his wife of 20 years
Bach: Air on a G String Orchestral Suite No 3 in D – what exactly is an air in musical terms…listen and we’ll tell you
FOR OUR COFFEE BREAK THIS WEEK we have the slow movement from a symphony - Beethoven Pastoral Symphony No 6 2nd movement Andante – the joy of being in the countryside…listen out for the brook and the birds
Dukas: The Sorceror’s Apprentice – inspired by Goethe and famously used in Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves – based on a piece going back to Tudor times; listen to the evidence with what Shakespeare wrote in one of his comedies
Mozart: Concerto for horn No 4 in E flat major 3rd movement Rondo – a jaunty piece
Mahler: Symphony No 4 1st movement – time to refill your coffee mug for this glorious extended movement
Pietro Locatelli: Concerto Grosso No 2 in C minor Largo – a lesser known composition from this Italian Baroque composer and violinist
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition The Great Gate of Kiev one of the ten movements which has a recurring promenade theme
Rimsky Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee – a busy, short piece from an opera where a Prince is transformed into a bee by a magical swan
