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Fake Tunes on tonight's Mixtape. Imposters and impersonations abound. Home Sweet Home just happens to be in Switzerland for Liszt's rival.

Fake Tunes on tonight's MixTape. Imposters and impersonations abound. Home Sweet Home just happens to be in Switzerland for Liszt's rival, and a member of Handel's orchestra decides to write his own oratorio, and could that be Elgar in his most establishment Victorian pomp? Don't worry the rest is real - from Tallis, Purcell and Vaughan Williams to Mendelssohn and Grieg.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 20 Nov 2019 19:00

Music Played

  • Frank Ferko

    Reflection on Thomas Tallis's 'If ye love me'

    Ensemble: ORA. Director: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Lodewijk Mortelmans

    Solemn Procession to Gethsemani (Part II of Evangelical Diptych)

    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig.
    • BEVRT.
  • Willem de Fesch

    Joseph's Aria "Tremble Shudder at the Guilt" - from the oratorio Joseph, Act 1

    Singer: Claron McFadden. Ensemble: Musica ad Rhenum. Conductor: Jed Wentz.
    • NLNOS.
  • Gaspar Sanz

    Canario

    Performer: Xavier D铆az-Latorre. Performer: Pedro Estevan.
    • La Guitarra dels Lleons.
    • CANTUS.
    • 9.
  • Sigismond Thalberg

    Variations on 'Home, sweet home' for piano (Op.72)

    Performer: Dennis Hennig.
    • AUABC.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Songs of Travel (The Infinite Shining Heavens)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Musette (King Christian II Suite)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • The Sibelius Edition Vol.5: Theatre Music.
    • Bis.
    • 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo in A minor, from Four Pieces for String Quartet

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op.40 (Praeludium)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Grieg: Complete music with orchestra: Gothenburg SO/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

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  • Wed 20 Nov 2019 19:00

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