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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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.