Stephen Fry's New Year Mixtape
Episode b09k8b9m, broadcast at Tuesday 2nd January 2018, 7:00pm.
“To start the new year, Stephen Fry introduces his own specially curated classical music mixtape. In it he includes some of the music that means the most to him. We hear from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor, Bach's Chromatic Fantasy in D minor, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and Strauss's Death and Transfiguration. 30 minutes of uninterrupted music put together specially by Stephen Fry. The perfect way to usher in your evening.”
Track listing
- 3:19 – Cosi Fan Tutte, Overture (track 1, Cosi Fan Tutte)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble MusicAeterna
- Conductor Teodor Currentzis
- 7:09 – Chromatic Fantasy, BWV 903 (track 16, Works By Bach and Scarlatti)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Glenn Gould
- 10:00 – "Egmont" Overture (track 1, Syphony No. 9/"Egmont" Overture)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Ferenc Fricsay
- 12:12 – Chaconne in D Minor (track 1, Michelangeli in Recital)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Arturo Michelangeli
- 15:03 – Piano Trio in E Minor Op 67 (3rd mvt) (track 3, Works by Shostakovich and Messiaen)
- Performer Joshua Bell
- Composer Dmitry Shostakovich
- Performer Steven Isserlis
- Performer Olli Mustonen
- 19:18 – Sonata in B Minor (track 1-4, Piano Works, Vol 3)
- Composer Franz Liszt
- Performer Jorge Bolet
- 24:17 – Tristan & Isolde: Prelude (track 1, Tristan Und Isolde)
- Composer Richard Wagner
- Orchestra Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
- 28:08 – Tod & Verklärung (track 2, Kempe Conducts Richard Strauss Vol 2.)
- Composer Richard Strauss
- Orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden
- Conductor Rudolf Kempe