This August, CLASSICAL VIBES is a la France and celebrating French composers and music set in or about France as I am on a 3 week mini-tour of our wonderful neighbouring country. We will be touring the musical landscape of France and taking in the likes of Saint-Saens, Debussy, Farrenc, Berlioz, Bizet, Faure and more!
Don’t worry, I will still be speaking in English!
Playlist
Jacques Offenbach — Orphée aux enfers: Can-Can (orpheus in the underworld)
Vienna Philharmonic & Lorin Maazel
Claude Rouget de Lisle — La Marseillaise
Musique des équipages de la flotte de Toulon (Music [Band] of the Fleet Crews of Toulon)
Hector Berlioz — Symphonie fantastique
London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
Maurice Ravel — Pavane pour une infante défunte (“Pavane for a Dead Princess”)
Anna Vinnitskaya
François Couperin — Leçons de Ténèbres: Troisième Leçon Lessons of Tenebrae service
Tenebrae & Nigel Short
Claude-Michel Schönberg – Bring Him Home from les miserables
The Piano Guys
Georges Bizet — L’Arlésienne, Op. 23: Prélude (Acte I) (the woman from Arles) Opera
Michel Plasson & Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Camille Saint-Saëns — Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22: II. Allegro scherzando
Benjamin Grosvenor, James Judd & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Williams — Revisiting Normandy
From the Saving Private Ryan soundtrack
Boston Symphony Orchestra & John Williams
Gabriel Fauré — Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Frederick Delius — Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 1: Prelude
Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips
Louise Farrenc — Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 36: IV
Philzuid & Duncan Ward
Lili Boulanger — D’un matin de printemps / Of a Spring Morning
Swedish Wind Ensemble, Cathrine Winnes (as listed — arr. for wind ensemble)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 “Paris”: III. Allegro
Orchestre de chambre de Paris & John Nelson
Claude Debussy — Arabesques, CD 74, L. 66
Martin James Bartlett
