River of Music

[sawyl]

Been listening to a good deal of R3's River of Music this afternoon and some of the sequences have been inspired. I particularly loved the section that ran:

• Recordare and Move Him into the Sun from Britten's War Requiem
• Quid sum miser, Rex tremendae and Recordare from Verdi's Requiem
• Harrison Birtwistle's Panic
• Kaval Sviri, a traditional Bulgarian piece arranged by Peter Liomdev
• John Adams' Nixon in China from the opening through Soldiers of Heaven, finishing with the landing of The Spirit of 76

Which segued into:

• Stan Kenton's Artistry in Rhythm
• The Adagio from Mahler's nineth in one of Bernstein's performances with the New York Phil
• L'Artisanat furieux from Le Marteau sans maitre by Pierre Boulez
• Orlando Gibbons' The Silver Swan — a madrigal which features in Iris Murdoch's The Bell
• Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in an amazing performace with Slava Rostropovich and Evgeny Svetlanov

Amazing stuff.