A WEEK OF WONDER

Friday Oct 6 Autumn by Frank Bridge (1879-1941) Atmospheric choral music from a neglected British composer

Saturday Oct 7

An Air from Roland by Jean-baptiste Lully (1632-1687)

A stately, gilded air from Lully’s lavish take on Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando furioso

Sunday Oct 8

Gallarda Napolitana by Antonio Valente (dates unknown; fl. 1565-1580) An infectiously rhythmic example of musical multiculturalism that’s almost 500 years old

Monday Oct 9

Cantus Arcticus, 2nd movement: Melankolia by Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)

Take a trip to the Arctic Circle today – once heard, never forgotten

Tuesday Oct 10

Touch her soft lips and part from Henry V Suite by William Walton (19021983) arr. Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)

Walton’s immaculate setting of words from Act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Henry V is given a contemporary twist

Wednesday Oct 11

Symphony no 9 in D minor, 3rd movement by Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) From devotion to rapture, humility to might, this movement has everything

Thursday Oct 12

Suite Española, 1st movement – Granada by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) A delightful musical postcard from Spain