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playing some outstanding classical music to make it the perfect soundtrack to your Sunday morning

 

This week featuring 5 British composers and an interview with Stuart Dunlop, Watford Symphony Orchestra

 

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March in G major No 4 – from the 5 marches, something upbeat and ceremonial

Adam: Giselle – listen to the sad story of this ballet

Finzi: Forlana – the fourth of this English composer’s five bagatelles

 

EDWARD’S INSIGHTS Schubert hear Edward Longstaff’s reflections about these two pieces

Schubert: The Trout: Song and Variation for Quintet

 

Howard Goodall: The Lord is My Shepherd – from the composer of iconic television theme tunes, this is from the Vicar of Dibley

Haydn: Symphony No 1 in D major all three movements – a short symphony written when Haydn was a court musician for a Czech Count

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream Scherzo – these pieces of incidental music were written 16 years after the overture

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream Nocturne – listen to the solo horn for while the lovers sleep

Tchaikovsky: Melodie for violin and piano in E flat – a lyrical third movement from Souvenir d’un Lieu Cher

 

 

FOR OUR COFFEE BREAK THIS WEEK we have an epic third movement

Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor Tragic 3rd movement Andante moderato – listen in to hear what Mahler was thinking when he composed this

 

Binge: Elizabethan Serenade – some British Light Music after the previous seriousness

Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad – based on A E Housman’s poetry collection

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Interview with Stuart Dunlop, Conductor of the Watford Symphony Orchestra

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Handel: Water Music Suite No 2 – the second of three orchestral suites composed for King George 1

Elgar: Symphony No 2 2nd movement Larghetto – another piece for a King, dedicated to King Edward VII

Bach: Prelude No 1 in C for harp – a delightfully flowing piece

 

 

 

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