In this hip-twisting musical party the BBC Singers explore the irresistible melodies and toe-tapping rhythms of the masters of the dance band – rhythms that brought about new sounds, new dances and a new social order. Among the treasures of the ‘original’ roaring 20s and 30s were songs that would become Christmas classics a few …
00:58:00 Proms Plus interval feature. Katie Molleson in conversation with David Benedict and Sophie Redfern. 01:18:45 Petroc Trelawney in conversation with Mikaela Bennett and Ross Lekites. 01:20:50 My Fair Lady and West Side Story as twin peaks;as pinnacle of American old-fashioned operetta, and as “the great American musical theatre work written in the vernacular, and …
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Not the normal ordering of the songs; refer to timings.
[rtoc]Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Talivaldis Kenins Partita for Strings on Lutheran Chorales (1983) Performer: I Musici De Montréal, Yuli Turovsky (Conductor). CBC SMCD5131. Tr1. Margaret Atwood Death of a Young Son …
[rtoc]Diana Quick and Sophie Ward read a selection of poems inspired by the love between women over the ages – from the great Sappho whose many poems exist in tiny fragments, to Virginia Woolf in comic vein and the aunt and niece partnership who travelled Europe writing exquisite poems under the nom de plume Michael …
[rtoc] Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Robert Schumann Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär (Op. 43 Nr.1) Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano); Barbara Bonney (soprano); Malcolm Martineau (piano). Sony Classical SK93133. Tr13. Shakespeare Romeo …
[rtoc] Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Purcell, arr. Berio The modification and instrumentation of a famous hornpipe as a merry and altogether sincere homage to Uncle Alfred Performer: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe …
[rtoc]Music Played Add music you love and enjoy it with My Tracks Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes 00:00 Eric Whitacre Cloudburst Performer: Polyphony, Stephen Layton (director). HYPERION CDA67543. 8. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The Cloud, read by Adjoa Andoh EDWARD THOMAS The clouds that are so …
[rtoc] 00:00 Thomas Adès O Albion from Arcadiana, Op.12 (1994) Performer: Endellion Quartet. EMI CDZ 5722712. Tr14. A. E. Housman Blue Remembered Hills, read by Philip Franks 00:03 William Byrd Mass For Five Voices I. Kyrie Performer: The Hilliard Ensemble. EMI CDS7492058. CD2 Tr1. George Orwell From England your England, read by Philip Franks 00:07 …