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The ultimate classical football mix

In Tune's Classical Music Football Mixtape: celebrating the Euro 2020 football finals with a sequence of music associated with and inspired by the beautiful game.

Celebrate the British home nations competing in the finals of Euro 2020 with an uninterrupted sequence of football-related classical music! From opera arias and anthems appropriated by TV for big international competitions, and grand orchestral themes played out as club teams walk onto the pitch, to songs hijacked by fans and belted out from the stands, the In Tune Mixtape pays tribute to the beautiful game. There's music by soccer-mad composer Shostakovich, a famous film score by Elmer Bernstein, and a setting of the Gloria by Poulenc, who is said to have been inspired by watching monks playing a football match. Whether or not you know the Italian words to Volare or Nessun Dorma, sing along with gusto to music by Rogers and Hammerstein, Puccini, Handel, Faur茅, and Prokofiev.

Producer: Helen Garrison

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 18 Jun 2021 19:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Nessun dorma (Turandot)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Choir: The John Alldis Choir. Choir: Wandsworth School Boys鈥� Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • DECCA.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 (Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Domenico Modugno

    Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)

    Lyricist: Franco Migliacci. Ensemble: The Gypsy Queens.
    • London Recordings.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pavane, Op.50 arr McFerrin for voice and orchestra.

    Singer: Bobby McFerrin. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet: Valery Gergiev, LSO.
    • LSO Live.
    • 13.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Football (Russian River Suite, Op 66)

    Performer: Rustem Hayroudinoff.
    • Chandos.

  • Richard Rogers

    You'll never walk alone

    Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Jennifer Johnston. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • You'll never walk alone.
    • Rubicon Classics.
    • 101.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Gloria)

    Ensemble: Polyphony. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Poulenc: Gloria; Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Elmer Bernstein

    The Great Escape - Main Title

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • RYKO.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the priest HWV.258

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Jun 2021 19:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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