There didn't seem to be any global unifying theme for today's program. However, in the closing hour, there was a fair amount of poking fun at the Last Night of the BBC Promenade Concerts:
The Last Night is the most overrated event of the musical calendar. It's awful (although this year there's a new work which should confuse the partygoers) with people waving Union flags and letting off klaxons. It's one of those institutions which cannot be changed under pain of something-really-nasty as one conductor found a few years ago when he tried to drop "Land of Hope and Glory" and "Rule, Britannia" from the programme. It's much better to go to the real concerts.--Disenchanted UK Music Lover
The abovementioned "Jerusalem" is a setting of a poem by the unconventional poet/artist William Blake. More musical settings of Blake's poetry will be featured in future editions of Mixed Up Class.
We also continue with music of Henry Purcell (1659-1695) in this 300th anniversary year of Purcell's death.
Michael Gordon: Yo Shakespeare (CD: Terminal Velocity)
(Icebreaker)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 21 in C ("Waldstein") (CD: Beethoven Sonatas
(Richard Goode) Opp. 53, 54, 57)
Serge Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in (CD: Prokofiev:
D, Op. 94a Violin Sonatas)
(Shlomo Mintz, violin;
Yefim Bronfman, piano)
Thomas Arne: Rule Brittania (CD: Music for the
(Sarah Walker; Royal Philharmonic Last Night of Proms)
Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves)
Henry Purcell: Te Deum (Z. 232) (CD: Purcell:
(Choir of Christ Church Cathedral; Choral Works)
The English Concert; Simon Preston)
Henry Purcell: Songs of Henry Purcell (CD: Ohhh ... Henry!)
Man is for the woman made
A Mad Song (Beneath a poplar)
Musick for awhile
Hornpipe
(Susan Rode Morris, soprano;
Phebe Craig, Harpsichord)
Ian Partridge, tenor; Jakob Lindberg, lute (CD: It fell on
John Dowland: Sweet, stay awhile, why will you rise a summer's day)
Dowland: Fine knacks for ladies
Thomas Campion: Come, you pretty false-eyed wanton
Jesu Cristes milde moder (CD: The Lily
(Anonymous 4) & The Lamb)
William Mathias: As truly as God is our Father (CD: William
(Christ Church Cathedral Choir; Mathias: Church
Stephen Darlington) and Choral Music)
Sir John Goss: Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (CD: Coronation
(Choir of St. Paul's Anthems & Hymns)
Cathedral; Barry Rose)
Purcell: Trumpet Tune from "King Arthur" (CD: Coronation
(Christopher Dearnley, organ) Anthems & Hymns)
Sir Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March in D (CD: Music for the
(Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Last Night of Proms)
& Chorus; Sir Charles Groves)
Sir Arthur Bliss: Jubilant Fanfare (CD: Coronation
Anthems & Hymns)
C. H. H. Parry: I was glad (CD: Coronation
(Choir of St. Paul's Anthems & Hymns)
Cathedral; Barry Rose)
Parry: Jerusalem (CD: Music for the
(Sarah Walker; Royal Philharmonic Last Night of Proms)
Orchestra & Chorus; Sir Charles Groves)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonata IV in D (CD: Biber:
(Sanssouci-Ensemble Hamburg) Sonaten 1681 (II))
Annbjørg Lien: The Water Lily (CD: Felefeber
(Norweigian
Fiddle Music))
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