The Instruments of the Orchestra (2002)

Track Listing

1. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: "Oh! to be a conductor..." Includes excerpt from Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser
2. Domna, pos vos ay chausida: Excerpt
3. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: We don't merely use instruments, we play on them. And they play on us.
4. Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1: Hungarian Dance No. 7
5. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The violin is one of the most tender and beautiful instruments ever invented

1. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: "Oh! to be a conductor..." Includes excerpt from Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser
2. Domna, pos vos ay chausida: Excerpt
3. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: We don't merely use instruments, we play on them. And they play on us.
4. Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1: Hungarian Dance No. 7
5. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The violin is one of the most tender and beautiful instruments ever invented
6. Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77: Adagio (excerpt)
7. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: But for a long time it was seen as the instrument of the devil.
8. L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale), for 3 actors, dancer & 7 instruments: Triumphal March of the Devil (excerpt)
9. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The manipulative seductiveness of the gypsy violin
10. Csárdás, for violin & piano
11. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The violin and the imitation of nature
12. Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in E major ("La Primavera"), RV 269, Op. 8/1 (The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 1): No. 1. (excerpt)
13. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: Birds are again evoked in the second concerto, especially music's natural favourite
14. Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in G minor ("L'estate"), RV 315, Op. 8/2 (The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 2): No. 1. (excerpt)
15. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: Like the devil, the violin is a master of disguise.
16. Schön Rosmarin, for violin & piano
17. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The menacing sensuality of Ravel's Tzigane; a very different side of the violin
18. Tzigane, rhapsodie de concert, for violin & piano (or orchestra), M. 76: Excerpt
19. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: Do we now have the true measure of this instrument? Not just jet.
20. Caprice for solo violin in A minor (Theme & Variations), Op. 1/24, MS 25/24: Excerpt
21. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The many effects of the string tremolando. Includes excerpt from Bach's Brandenburg Concert
22. Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, for strings, Op. 10: No. 7
23. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: Prokofiev's tremolo in Romeo and Juliet should not be heard just before bedtime
24. Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 4 acts, Op. 64: Act 4. (excerpt)
25. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: Vivaldi uses it to illustrate the shivering of travellers crossing the ice
26. Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in F minor ("L'inverno"), RV 297, Op. 8/4 (The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 4): No. 1 (excerpt)
27. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The violin muted
28. Clair de lune, for orchestra or other arrangement (from "Suite Bergamasque" for piano), CD 82/3 (L. 75/3)
29. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The gentleness of muted strings persists even when a whole orchestra plays
30. Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major ("Elvira Madigan") K. 467: excerpt
31. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: The pizzicato violin
32. Pizzicato Polka for orchestra, Op. 234
33. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, the accompaniment is pizzicato
34. Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63: Excerpt
35. The Instruments of the Orchestra, narration with musical excerpts: Violin: Varieties of pizzicato. Includes excerpt from Kabalevsky's Colas Breugon; Warlock's Capriol
36. The Planets, suite for orchestra & female chorus, Op.