Hanging By A Crotchet - Episode 3: The Greatest and Gayest ... and the Requiem
This week we're having a listen to some of the gayest classical music by renowned gay (or allegedly fruity) composers from Tchaikovsky to Glass. Whether you like pretty little little ballet pieces or dramatic operas about nuns being guillotined - there's something for you.
Later in the show we also do a deep dive into the Requiem, one of the oldest continuing genres of music, that focuses on the jolly subject of DEATH. It'll be a hoot I promise.
Link to the Spotify playlist below:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VF5x2GRhdm6KK2PAco9hV?si=7a32075e11714f63
Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake: Dance of the Goblets
Franz Schubert - Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1: "I Have To Go From Pub To Pub"
Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1: "Let Her Among You"
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 2
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: Act II, Scene I - Dance I "Field with a Spaceship"
Francis Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159, Act 3 "Salve Regina"
Francis Poulenc - Three Novelettes, FP 47/173: Novelette in C major
Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op.32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Alma Mahler - Die stille Stadt
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Gnomus
Johannes Ockeghem - Missa pro Defunctis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia: f. Lacrimosa
Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45: 1. Chor: "Selig sind, die da Leid Tragen"
Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem: II. Dies Irae
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem, Op. 48: 1. Introitus: Requiem aeternam
Maurice Duruflé - Requiem: IV. Sanctus
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem, Op. 66 / Libera me: 6c. Let Us Sleep Now
Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem: II Kyrie. Molto espressivo
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