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Howard Goodall's Saturday Concert

Howard Goodall, Classic FM’s Composer-in-Residence, is here on Saturday evenings from 7pm to 10pm with The Saturday Concert.

Every week Howard has three hours of superb works for you – and each of them is played in full, without interruption.

Howard is also a successful recording artist and has released two albums as Classic FM's Composer-in-Residence - Enchanted Voices and Enchanted Carols. His stunning new album, ‘Howard Goodall’s Pelican in the Wilderness’, was released on 10th May.

This week's programme: Saturday 28 August

There’s a thoroughly regal flavour to tonight’s Full Works Concert, with music by Masters of the King’s and Queen’s Music alongside plenty of works inspired by the theme of royalty.

Franz von Suppe: The Queen of Spades – Overture
Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

William Boyce: Symphony No.2 in A major (‘Ode for the King’s Birthday’)
Christopher Hogwood conducts the Academy of Ancient Music

William Walton: Richard III – A Shakespeare Suite
Charles Groves conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Eric Coates: 3 Elizabeths Suite
William Kilbey conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

George Frideric Handel: The King Shall Rejoice
Stephen Cleobury conducts the Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

Cedric Thorpe Davie: Royal Mile: Coronation March
John Wilson conducts the Royal Ballet Sinfonia

Edward Elgar: Nursery Suite
Paul Goodwin conducts the English Chamber Orchestra
Elgar was Master of the King’s Music 1924-1934; this was composed in 1931

Engelbert Humperdinck: The Royal Children
Karl Anton Rickenbacher conducts the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Coronation Mass
Soloists: Emma Kirkby, John Mark Ainsley, Michael George, Catherine Robbin
Christopher Hogwood conducts the Academy of Ancient Music; David Hill conducts the Winchester Cathedral Choir; Julian Smith conducts the Winchester College Quiristers

Hector Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Orchestre de Paris

Peter Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
Bagpipes: George MacIlwham
Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

 

 

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