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Poulenc's Sinfonietta and Elizabeth Ogonek's All These Lighted Things

Judith Ralston celebrates the works of two Scottish composers, Anna Meredith and James MacMillan, while sharing music from American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw.

Judith shares more personal picks, including Bach's Erbarme dich from St Matthew's Passion, Massenet's Meditation from the opera Thais, and excerpts from Faure's Requiem.

And the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Elizabeth Ogonek's All These Lighted Things at the Aldeburgh Festival, while the BBC Concert Orchestra perform Poulenc's Sinfonietta.

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BBC Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion)

    Performer: David Mccullum. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Kathleen Ferrier Edition.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Widmung

    Performer: André Previn. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • Robert and Clara Schumann: Lieder.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (Thaïs)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Anna Meredith

    Calion

    • Calion.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.
    • 1.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem: Pie Jesu

    • Fauré: Requiem.
    • LSO Live.
    • 13.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem: In Paradisum

    • Fauré: Requiem.
    • LSO Live.
    • 16.

  • Elizabeth Ogonek

    All These Lighted Things

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Entr'acte

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Caroline Shaw: Orange.
    • New Amsterdam/Nonesuch.
    • 1.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Disprezzata Regina!

    Lyricist: Giovanni Francesco Busenello.
    • Anne Sofie von Otter - in my element.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 16.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Lyricist: Anon..
    • Who Are These Angels? New Choral Music by James MacMillan.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.

  • James Macmillan

    Who Shall Separate Us?

    Lyricist: Anonymous.
    • Vaughan Williams, MacMillan & Tavener: Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    On the Town: The Great Lover

    • Bernstein conducts Bernstein.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Leonard Bernstein

    On the Town: Times Square, 1944

    • Bernstein conducts Bernstein.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 19:00
    BBC Radio Scotland