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James Jolly

As well as a mix of works ranging in time from William Byrd to Anna Clyne, James Jolly introduces music from ballets by Tchaikovsky and Rameau.

As well as a mix of music ranging in time from William Byrd to Anna Clyne, James Jolly plays music from ballets by Tchaikowsky and Rameau. Selections from the Nutcracker mark the anniversary of the first classical music television concerts in America, while the current sequence of ballet suites on the programme brings us to the dance music from Rameau's 1749 opera "Na茂s".

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 20 Mar 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker, Act 2 - Divertissement

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Eugene Ormandy Conducts Tchaikovsky.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 001.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B minor, Op 32 No 10

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.
    • Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 1.
    • PARNASSUS.
    • 007.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Gammelnorsk romanse med variasjoner / Old Norwegian Melody with Variations, Op 51

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Greatest Orchestral Works.
    • X5 Music Group.
    • 006.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet in A minor

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Paul Neubauer. Performer: David Finckel. Performer: Wu Han.
    • Brahms / Schumann / Mahler / Piano Quartets / Daniel Hope etc..
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 001.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for Three Voices

    Ensemble: The Cardinall鈥檚 Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.
    • The Byrd Edition 5.
    • ASV.
    • 008.
  • Augusta Read Thomas

    Capricious Toccata

    Performer: Nathan Giem.
    • Augusta Read Thomas - Of Being Is A Bird.
    • NIMBUS.
    • 013.
  • Michel Corrette

    Laudate dominum

    Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique. Conductor: Martin Gester.
    • Vivaldi: Denoy茅 & Corrette.
    • Ambronay.
    • 002.
  • Adolf Schulz-Evler

    An die sch枚ner blauen Donau - Concert arabesques after a waltz by J Strauss Jr

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Dances.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato Polka

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • J. Strauss, Waltzes, Ormandy.
    • RCA.
    • 008.
  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons, Op 2

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.
    • Schumann: Fantasie.
    • EMI.
    • 009.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Psalm 124

    Ensemble: Gemini. Director: Ian Mitchell.
    • Metier.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Nais Suite

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Rameau: Les Indes Galantes / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 014.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Mar 2016 09:00