The Best of 2021
This Boxing Day Jamie reflects on the past year in the Classics Unwrapped studio, including visits from The Edinburgh Quartet, musicians from the RSNO and the Resol Quartet.
Tonight, Jamie shares his 2021 highlights including studio sessions with the Edinburgh Quartet, RSNO musicians and the Resol Quartet. He revisits some special features with The Ayoub Sisters, singers Lorna Anderson and Andrea Baker plus composer Gareth Williams as they explore music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Errollyn Wallen. Alongside a few festive tracks for Boxing Day, Jamie鈥檚 Album of the Week features Brahms鈥� best-loved music; his clarinet sonata, Requiem, symphonies and songs.
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Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov
The Musical Box
Orchestra: Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.- Liadov: Orchestral Music.
- ASV.
- 9.
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Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Sonata in F Minor (3rd mvt)
Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.- Brahms: Famous Pieces.
- PENTATONE.
- 201.
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Franz Schubert
String Trio, D471 (Allegro)
Ensemble: Members of the Edinburgh Quartet. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro. K492 - "No so piu cosa...
Performer: Christa Ludwig.- Le Nozze di Figaro.
- DG.
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Richard Wagner
Lohengrin - Entweihte Gotter
Performer: Christa Ludwig.- Wagner: Lohengrin.
- Orfeo.
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Leonard Bernstein
What's the Use (Candide)
Performer: Christa Ludwig.- Bernstein: Theatre Works.
- DG.
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Gustav Mahler
What's the Use (Candide)
Performer: Christa Ludwig.- Mahler: Symphony No.2.
- DG.
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Kenneth Leighton
Let All The World in Every Corner Sing
Performer: Nicholas Wearne. Music Arranger: Kenneth Hesketh. Choir: The Girls and Men of Canterbury Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Newsholme.- Great Cathedral Anthems.
- Signum.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
5 Pieces for 2 violins and piano
Music Arranger: Levon Atovmyan. Ensemble: Members of the RSNO. -
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Florence Price
Sympathy
Performer: John B O'Brien. Singer: Louise Toppin.- Vocal Music (American Women Composers).
- Albany.
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Errollyn Wallen
Concerto Grosso
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.- Spark Catchers.
- NMC.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Brahms: Famous Pieces.
- PENTATONE.
- 2001.
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The Holly and the Ivy
Music Arranger: June Nixon. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- Nine Lessons & Carols: King's College Cambridge.
- Kings College.
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O Rowan Tree
Performer: Plaidsong. -
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Johannes Brahms
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (Ein Deutsches Requiem)
Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Marek Janowski.- Brahms: Famous Pieces.
- PENTATONE.
- 1201.
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William Grant Still
Romance
Performer: Richard Scholfield. Music Arranger: Richard Scholfield. Ensemble: Resol Quartet. -
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Good King Wencesles
Music Arranger: Sam Every. Ensemble: Bone-afide.- Christmas With Bone-afide.
- Bone-afide.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Ballade in A minor, Op 33
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.- Butterworth & Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Works.
- ARGO.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Deep River
Performer: David Shaffer-Gottschalk.- Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River.
- Albany.
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Johannes Brahms
Geistliches Wiegenlied
Performer: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: Yulia Deyneka. Author: Emanuel Geibel. Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩.- Brahms: Famous Pieces.
- PENTATONE.
- 601.
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John Sheppard
Mass "Be Not Afraide": Agnus Dei
Ensemble: The Cardinall鈥檚 Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.- Sheppard: Mass "Be Not Afraide" - Music for St Stephen's Day.
- Meridian.
Broadcast
- Boxing Day 2021 19:00大象传媒 Radio Scotland