Celebrating Pushkin Queen of the Night
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- Music Commentary
This week’s show includes music that is rousing, dreamy, crazy and more. It also celebrates the birth in 1799 of a writer who inspired so many composers, one Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, playwright, and novelist.
Playlist: 07 June 2020
* Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmilla: Overture. Mariinsky Orchestra/ Valery Gergiev.
* Debussy: Reverie. Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pno.
* Nyman: War Work: Eight Songs with Film: Dreaming of Home.
* Puccini: Nessun Dorma. Giuseppe di Stefano, ten. National Academy of St. Cecilia Orchestra/ Franco Patané.
* Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: I. Dawn; II. Sunday Morning; III. Moonlight. London SO/ Andre Previn
* Pachelbel (Arr. Chilcott): Canon (Rosa Mystica). The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers.
* Rimsky-Korsakov: Tale of the Tsar Sultan: Flight of the Bumblebee. Philharmonia Orch/ Vladimir Ashkenazy.
* Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin: Lensky’s Aria. Leonid Sobinov, ten.
Photo: Pushkin in St Petersburg
This week’s show includes music that is rousing, dreamy, crazy and more. It also celebrates the birth in 1799 of a writer who inspired so many composers, one Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, playwright, and novelist.
Playlist: 07 June 2020
* Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmilla: Overture. Mariinsky Orchestra/ Valery Gergiev.
* Debussy: Reverie. Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pno.
* Nyman: War Work: Eight Songs with Film: Dreaming of Home.
* Puccini: Nessun Dorma. Giuseppe di Stefano, ten. National Academy of St. Cecilia Orchestra/ Franco Patané.
* Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: I. Dawn; II. Sunday Morning; III. Moonlight. London SO/ Andre Previn
* Pachelbel (Arr. Chilcott): Canon (Rosa Mystica). The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers.
* Rimsky-Korsakov: Tale of the Tsar Sultan: Flight of the Bumblebee. Philharmonia Orch/ Vladimir Ashkenazy.
* Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin: Lensky’s Aria. Leonid Sobinov, ten.
Photo: Pushkin in St Petersburg
51 min