This month’s show had music inspired by, or about a Place. Generally a country, region or city. We take a round-the-world trip starting in London, moving around Europe, then moving down into Africa briefly, crossing the Atlantic, stopping for a moment in the US before jumping over to Asia, and finishing off in Russia.
Playlist
1. Bob Chilcott – Swimming Over London – 3:55
Performer: Tenebrae & Nigel Short
2. George Gershwin – An American in Paris – 18:28
Performer: Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
3. Ludwig van Beethoven – Germania, WoO 94 – 5:06
Performer: Niklas Spångberg, The Key Ensemble, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra & Leif Segerstam
4. Zoltán Kodály – Háry János Suite: Viennese Musical Clock – 2:26
Performer: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Antal Doráti
5. Johannes Brahms – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 1 in G Minor – 3:09
Performer: Svenska Kammarorkestern & Thomas Dausgaard
6. Emmanuel Chabrier – España – Rhapsody for Orchestra – 6:10
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic & John Eliot Gardiner
7. Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”: 1. Allegro vivace – 10:29
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
10. David Fanshawe – African Sanctus: I. African Sanctus, “Bwala” Dance of Uganda – 3:06
Performer: Harold Lester, Owain Arwel Hughes, The Ambrosian Singers, Gerry Butler, Mustapha Tettey Addy, Gary Kettel, Terry Emery, Tony Campo, Martin Kershaw & Alan Parker
11. Foday Musa Suso – Tilliboyo (“Sunset”) – 4:21
Performer: Kronos Quartet
8. Klaus Beldt – Hans Zimmer (arr.) – Pirates of the Caribbean: Main Theme – 5:52
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Tolga Kashif
Date of Composition: 2003
9. Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring: Allegro – 2:43
Performer: Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
12. John Williams – Seven Years in Tibet – 7:08
Performer: Yo-Yo Ma, John Williams & Seven Years in Tibet Orchestra
13. Alexander Borodin – In the Steppes of Central Asia – 6:44
Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Ernest Ansermet
14. Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate of Kiev – 6:04
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic & Sir Simon Rattle
15. Ludovico Einaudi – Elegy for the Arctic – 2:39
Performer: Ludovico Einaudi
