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The Pomp and Circumstance Mixtape

A special mix inspired by Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No 1, as played at the opening of Abbey Road studios - a key moment in Radio 3's Our Classical Century.

A special mix inspired by Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March no.1, as played at the opening of Abbey Road studios in 1931 - a key moment in Radio 3's Our Classical Century programming. In Tune's specially curated playlist ends with with a military march by Richard Wagner – and the light relief comes from the unlikely figure of Arnold Schoenberg, with his arrangement of the Italian popular song Funiculi, Funicula.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 3 Dec 2018 19:00

Music Played

  • Luigi Denza

    Funiculi, funicula

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Lyon Opera Soloists.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 8.
  • ³§Ã¶²Ô»åö°ù²µÅ‘

    Marice

    • Tamburocket.
    • Riverboat Records.
    • 002.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 arr for orchestra

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • WARNER.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in D major for piano duet, K 381 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Justus Frantz.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano Duet: Justus Frantz, Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major (Sarabande)

    Performer: Peter Gregson. Performer: Richard Harwood. Performer: Reinaud Ford. Performer: Tim Lowe. Performer: Ben Chappell. Performer: Katherine Jenkinson. Music Arranger: Peter Gregson.
    • Bach: The Cello Suites - Recomposed by Peter Gregson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Marin Marais

    Plainte (Suite in D major, Pièces de viole, Book 3)

    Performer: William Hunt. Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Marin Marais 'La folia' & other music for viols and violins The Purcell Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La traviata (Act 3 Prelude)

    Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Schippers.
    • Opera Overtures and Incidental Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Richard Wagner

    Huldigungsmarsch for military band

    Conductor: Marek Janowski. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Wagner: Preludes and Orchestral works: Marek Janowski.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.

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  • Mon 3 Dec 2018 19:00

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