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Cerys Matthews

Cerys Matthews takes us on a personal guided tour of the musical world, taking in Bellini and Blind Snooks Eaglin, Max Richter and the Rhos Male Voice Choir, with poetry too from Rumi, Dylan Thomas and W B Yeats.

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Sat 31 Mar 2018 13:00
成人论坛 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'Elisir d'amore: Act 2, Sc 2)

    Singer: Mario Lanza.
    • RCA.

  • Mongo Santamar铆a

    Afro-Blue

    Singer: Melanie De Biasio.
    • Banquet Records.

  • Max Richter

    Modular Astronomy (Woolf Works: Orlando)

    Performer: Max Richter. Orchestra: Babelsberg German Film Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Deutsche Gramophon.

  • Ibrahim Maalouf

    Lily Will Soon Be a Woman

    Performer: Ibrahim Maalouf.
    • Decca.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for oboe & piano (1st mvt)

    Performer: Olivier Doise. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Naxos.

  • Arwel Hughes

    Tydi a Roddaist

    Choir: Rhos Male Voice Choir.
    • DELYSE.

  • Snooks Eaglin

    Brown Skinned Woman

    Singer: Snooks Eaglin.
    • XTRA.

  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree, written by W.B. Yeats and read by Cyril Cusack.

  • Cerys Matthews

    Hippos

    Author: Dylan Thomas. Performer: Cerys Matthews. Music Arranger: Mason Neely.

  • Traditional Paraguayan

    Pajaro Campana (The Bell Bird)

    Performer: Alfredo Gryciuk. Performer: Mart铆n Portillo. Performer: Marcelo Rojas. Performer: Ariel Burgos.

  • 1910 (Notice How Each Particle Moves) written by Rumi, read by Jack Hirschman.

  • Jonathan Harvey

    I love the Lord

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in G minor, Op 24 No 1

    Performer: Ivana Gavri膰.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piece en forme d'habanera, arr. for violin & piano

    Performer: Ginette Neveu. Performer: Jean Neveu.

  • Traditional Hungarian

    Mama

    Music Arranger: Roby Lakatos. Ensemble: Roby Lakatos Ensemble.

  • Selda Havva Bagcan

    Sivas Ellerinde Sazim Calinir

    Singer: Selda Havva Bagcan.

  • Traditional American

    Steal Away

    Choir: Southern Gospel Choir.

  • Helen in Egypt, written and performed by H.D.

  • Richard Wagner

    Im Treibhaus (Wesendonck Lieder)

    Singer: Christa Ludwig. Conductor: Otto Klemperer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Jane Birkin

    Fuir le bonheur de peur qu'il ne se sauve

    Composer: Serge Gainsbourg. Singer: Jane Birkin.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Spargi d'amaro pianto (Lucia di Lammermoor: Act 3, Sc 2)

    Conductor: John Pritchard. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Orchestra: Academia di Santa Cecilia Rome.

  • Hans May

    Ein Lied geht um die Welt

    Singer: Joseph Schmidt. Orchestra: Parlophone Orchestra.

  • Amelia Earhart's International London Broadcast

  • Chilly Gonzales

    Gogol

    Performer: Chilly Gonzales.

  • Jimmie Rodgers

    Mule Skinner Blues

    Composer: George Vaughan. Singer: Jimmie Rodgers.

  • Liam O鈥橣lynn

    The Given Note

    Narrator: Seamus Heaney.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV 1051 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Wendy Carlos.

Broadcast

  • Sat 31 Mar 2018 13:00
    成人论坛 Radio 3

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