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McDowall, Biber, Glass

In Tune's specially curated mixtape: an eclectic mix of music, featuring pieces by Cecilia McDowall, Heinrich Biber and Philip Glass.

In Tune's specially curated mixtape: featuring a ragtime-influenced piano piece by Cecilia McDowall, 17th century trumpet music by Heinrich Biber and Philip Glass's Ragas in Minor Scale from his collaboration with Ravi Shankar. From the world of opera there's Tchaikovsky's regal Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, Bizet's serene Intermezzo from Carmen and Verdi's bolero from Les Vepres siciliennes in which the heroine expects either to get married or massacred or both!

Producer: Ian Wallington

29 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Aug 2018 19:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Ballets Russes - Russian Dances and Ballets.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 001.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Shades of Solace

    Performer: Olga Jorgensen.
    • Colour of Blossoms.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 006.
  • Georges Bizet

    Intermezzo (Carmen)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Bizet: Carmen/L'Arlesienne.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 009.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Merci, jeunes amies (Les Vespres siciliennes)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Renee Fleming.
    • DECCA.
    • 014.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata seconda a 8

    Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • BIber - Battalia etc.
    • TELDEC.
    • 007.
  • Philip Glass

    Ragas in Minor Scale (Passages)

    Ensemble: Passages Ensemble.
    • Passages - Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass.
    • Private.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Aug 2018 19:00

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