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In Tune's specially curated playlist, including an idyll for cello and organ by Elgar, Scottish-flavoured music by Amy Beach, and from Sousa - not a march but a romantic reverie.

In Tune's specially curated playlist, including an idyll for cello and organ by Elgar, Scottish-flavoured music by Amy Beach, and from Sousa - not a march but a romantic reverie. Also featured are majestic Venetian brass music by Gabrieli, a jaunty gigue by Handel, a German dance by Schubert, Alec Roth's setting for choir of George Herbert's The Flower and Tchaikovsky's perennial Waltz of the Flowers.

Producer: Ian Wallington

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 6 May 2020 19:00

Music Played

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni 脿 10, C.179

    Ensemble: Empire Brass Quintet and friends. Conductor: Rolf Smedvig.
    • Gabrieli: Empire brass quintet/Smedvig.
    • TELARC.
    • 001.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in A major, HWV 426 (Gigue)

    Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • Handel: 8 'Great' Suites for Keyboard.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Edward Elgar

    Idylle, Op 4 No 1

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: John Birch.
    • English Idyll.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Deutsche in C major and 2 trios (5 German Dances and 7 Trios, D.90)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Gabrielle Lester. Performer: Diemut Poppen. Performer: Richard Lester.
    • Schubert Soir茅e.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Amy Beach

    Scottish Legend, Op.54`1

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach - Piano Music Volume 2.
    • Guild.
    • 20.
  • John Philip Sousa

    Nymphalin

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • Chandos : CHSA 5182.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Alec Roth

    The Flower

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Director: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

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  • Wed 6 May 2020 19:00

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