19 October 25 by Classics Count - The world's greatest music

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March in G major No 4 – listen in to find out how Elgar’s Marches got their name Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major 2nd movement Andante - composed for a Viennese trumpeter who developed a keyed trumpet Chopin: Berceuse in D flat major – meaning lullaby and written in summer 1843 for Louisette but who was she? Binge: Sailing By – played before the 00:45 shipping forecast every night on BBC Radio 4 Haydn: Symphony No 94 in G Surprise 2nd movement Andante and 3rd movement Menuetto – allegro molto - beware there is a loud and sudden chord in the second movement! What was Haydn thinking? Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 3rd movement Allegro assai – a beautifully seductive piece Delius: On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring – a tone poem where the clarinet represents the cuckoo’s call Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave – composed for a benefit concert to raise funds for wounded soldiers Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe – from the 1986 movie The Mission COFFEE BREAK Two beautiful pieces from the remarkable and determined 19th century French composer Louise Farrenc: Sextet in C minor Andante sostenuto Louise Farrenc: Symphony No 3 in G minor Adagio cantabile Finzi: Forlana – one of the 5 Bagatelles which Finzi started composing in 1941 before he was drafted into the war Interview with Rowena Cutting and Hannah Stephens from the Audentior Symphony Orchestra who will be telling us about their special Hallowe’en Concert on Saturday 25th October Saint Saens: Danse Macabre – listen out for the xylophone denoting the rattling of the skeletons’ bones Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain – written to depict the witches’ wild dancing party Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1 In the Hall of the Mountain King – hear how the music changes as Peer is chased by the Trolls Prokofiev: Dance of the Knights – a fabulously dramatic and iconic piece for the Montagues and Capulets Faure: Pelleas and Melisande Sicilienne – from an opera with the story of a love triangle

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