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What if...? Tom's Marvellous Musical Multiverse

As we move from one year to the next, Tom indulges in some speculative musical time travel.

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Sun 27 Dec 2020 17:00
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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - suite Op.32; Neptune the Mystic

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • EMI.
    • 3696902.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    5 Songs for voice and piano; In meines Vaters Garten

    Performer: Karen Cargill. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • LINN.
    • CKD 453.

  • Richard Rodgers

    South Pacific; I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair

    Performer: Mary Martin. Performer: Original Broadway Cast Orchestra.
    • Columbia.
    • CK32604.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Patience; When I go out of door

    Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. Performer: George Baker. Performer: John Cameron. Performer: Pro Arte Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 7 64406 2.

  • Wings

    Mull of Kintyre

    • Parlophone.
    • 0777 7 89317 4 4.

  • Buddy Holly

    Not Fade Away

    Performer: Buddy Holly.
    • MCA Coral.
    • MCLC 1618.

  • Chuck Berry

    Johnny B Goode

    Performer: Jimi Hendrix.
    • MCA Records.
    • 170 322-2.

  • Freddie Mercury

    Bohemian Rhapsody

    Music Arranger: Rick Wakeman. Performer: Rick Wakeman.
    • Sony Classical.
    • SICP-31182.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem in D minor K.626, compl. Robert Levin

    Conductor: Bernard Labadie. Performer: La Chapelle de QuΓ©bec. Performer: Les Violons du Roy.
    • Atma.
    • ACD2 2722.

  • Robert Schumann

    Scenes from Goethe's Faust; Scene 7 (conclusion)

    Conductor: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Felicity Palmer. Performer: Aldeburgh Festival Singers. Performer: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Decca.
    • 478 5672.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in E flat major K.282; 3rd movement; Allegro

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Sony.
    • 88725413592.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 38 in C major; 3rd movement; Menuetto

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: The English Concert.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 4276612.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation; The heavens are telling

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Performer: CBSO Chorus.
    • Warner.
    • 0825646100552.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in A major Op.47 (Kreutzer) for violin and piano

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
    • 447 054-2.

  • NiccolΓ² Paganini

    24 Caprices Op.1; No. 5 in A minor

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • Warner.
    • 0825646150694.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.7; 3rd movement

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Performer: Lucy Parham. Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra.
    • SANCTUARY.
    • CDRSN3026.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Overture in C major

    Conductor: JoAnn Falletta. Performer: Women's Philharmonic.
    • Koch.
    • 3-7169-2H1.

  • Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor Op.40; 3rd mvt Allegro vivace

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Performer: Les Vents Français.
    • Warner.
    • 0825646231850.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    5 Songs for voice and piano; Die stille Stadt

    Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
    • Sony.
    • SK68344.

  • Freddie Mercury

    Bohemian Rhapsody

    Performer: Queen.
    • EMI.
    • EMTV30.

  • Scott Joplin

    Treemonisha; Real Slow Drag

    Performer: Anita Johnson. Performer: Rick Benjamin. Performer: The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and Singers.
    • New World.
    • NW80720.

  • Andreas Staier

    Mozart Improvisation

    Composer: Christine Schornsheim. Performer: Andreas Staier. Performer: Christine Schornsheim.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMC901941.

  • George Enescu

    Oedipe; Je T'attendrais

    Conductor: Lawrence Foster. Performer: Marjana LipovΕ‘ek. Performer: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9482752.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wellington’s Victory (Battle Symphony) - Part 2

    Conductor: Antal DorΓ‘ti. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mercury.
    • 416 4482.

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  • Sun 27 Dec 2020 17:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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