Fairy Tales
Samantha Bond celebrates the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Nick Davies conducts the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Guest singers include Hadley Fraser and 'Wicked' star Louise Dearman.
Two of the best story tellers of all time were The Brothers Grimm, Wilhem and Jacob, who together collected and wrote down countless German folk tales, including the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, The Pied Piper and Snow White.
Tonight, Sunday Night Is Music Night presents a concert of music inspired by these classic fairy tales, marking the 150 anniversary of Jacob Grimm's final ascent of the celestial beanstalk.
The concert brings classical music and classic films together, with music from Tchaikowsky, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Mussorsgsky and Rimsky Korsakov, alongside songs written for Disney's Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, Tangled (Rapunzel) and The Little Mermaid.
Samantha Bond is our presenter and story teller, singer Hadley Fraser takes on the role of the handsome Prince, while the current star of 'Wicked' Louise Dearman is our Princess. The magical 60 piece ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert orchestra, will be under the fantastical direction of Maestro Nick Davies.
The whole concert finishes with the spectacular βNight on a Bare Mountain' as featured in Disney's βFantasia'.
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Friday Night is Fright Night
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
HIGH ADVENTURE
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
DEVIL'S DANCE (FROM THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK)
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
TUBULAR BELLS
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, Geronimo Rauch & Leila Benn Harris
Phantom Of The Opera
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Funeral March of a Marionette
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
PSYCHO SUITE - MURDER & PRELUDE
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Alex Lester & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
GHOSTBUSTERS
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Murder on the Orient Express Waltz
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David Badella & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Epiphany (Sweeney Todd)
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
DEVILS GALLOP
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
BATMAN SUITE
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
1st Mvt - Vertigo Suite
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Leila Benn Harris & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
ONCE UPON A DREAM - JEKYLL & HYDE
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Geronimo Rauch & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Alive Transformation Song - JEKYLL & HYDE
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
LA TREGENDA (LE VILLIE) WITCHES DANCE
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
"JAWS" - MAIN THEME
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Twin Peaks (Fire Walk with Me)
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra & Cynthia Fleming
DANSE MACABRE
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Geronimo Rauch & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
MUSIC OF THE NIGHT
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David Badella & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
I'm Going ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
THRILLER
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
High Adventure - Sig Tune
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Flight To Neverland
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Sleeping Beauty - Waltz
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Louise Dearman & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Beauty And The Beast
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Mazurka - Coppelia
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Hadley Fraser & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Tom Thumb's Tune / Thumbelina
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
The Tale Of The Prince And Princess (Scheherazade)
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Louise Dearman, Hadley Fraser & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
A Whole New World
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
The Fairy Tale City Of Kitezh (Extract)
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Louise Dearman & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
The Wizard And I
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Hadley Fraser & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Hushabye Mountain
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Clive Dunstall, Steve Smith, Steve Pearce & Ralph Salmins
Someday My Prince Will Come
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra & Louise Dearman
Part Of Your World
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Dance Of The Tumblers
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Louise Dearman, Hadley Fraser & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
I See The Light
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Night On A Bare Mountain
Conductors' Corner
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American-born, UK-based, Robert Ziegler is one of the most versatile conductors working today. His guest conducting in the 2013-14 season takes him throughout the UK, the US and Australia
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Goodbye For Now...
So it was Friday Night is βFrightβ Night and a chance for me to don a witchβs hat and wave a magic wand around the Hackney Empire β but Friday was also a sad occasion for us backstage as it marked the last Friday Night is Music Night for our Senior Studio Manager Graham Bunce.ΜύΜύAfter more than 40 years in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ service Graham will retire at the end of 2013.Μύ βBunceyβ as we know him -Μύ all our regular studio managers seem to have nicknames like Wawa or even Mad Dogβ¦but I digress..Μύ βBunceyβ worked on his first FNIMN on 22nd October 1971 at the Camden Theatre in London .ΜύOn that occasion the show was conducted by Mr Friday Night himselfΜύ -Μύ Sidney Torch - with star singer John Lawrenson;Μύ presenter Jimmy Kingsbury and producer Robert Bowman.ΜύΜύAny regular Friday Nighters remember that one β I wonder?? β weβd love to hear from you.ΜύNow 42 years later( almost to the day)Μύ Graham has balanced his last FNIMN for Radio 2.ΜύHe truly is one of the very best sound engineers in the business and he will be sorely missed by us all.Μύ As well as the brilliant sounds he brought to the showΜύΜύIβll miss his dry sense of humour and ..yes..the bags of wine gums and jelly babies he always brought to our rehearsals.ΜύWe send our best wishes to Graham, his wife Jackie and family for a long and happy retirement and though Graham will not beβ twiddling the knobsβ for us I know he will always be one of our loyal FNIMN listenersΜύ - well -Μύ when heβs not on Grandad duty that is!Μύ
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
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| Performer | ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra |
Broadcasts
- Fri 1 Nov 2013 20:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
- Fri 15 Nov 2013 20:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
- Fri 10 Jan 2014 20:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
- Sun 22 May 2022 19:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
