Thirty minutes of classical inspiration
Episode m000skkx, broadcast at Tuesday 16th April 2024, 7:00pm, and Friday 26th February 2021, 7:00pm.
Track listing
- 0:30 – Oklahoma! (Overture) (track 1, Rodgers and Hammerstein Overtures)
- Composer Richard Rodgers
- Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- Conductor John Mauceri
- 5:53 – Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaïde) (track 5, Mozart: Arias & R. Strauss: Orchestral Songs - Schafer, Abbado)
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- Singer Christine Schäfer
- 11:04 – Piano Sonata in B flat major D.960 (3rd mvt) (track 7, Schubert Piano Sonatas D 959 and 960/ Paul Lewis)
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Performer Paul Lewis
- 14:53 – Vespers, Op 37 (Blagoslovi, dushi moya) (Praise my Lord, O my soul)
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Choir St Thomas Church Choir New York
- Conductor John Scott
- 20:18 – Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Storm) (track 14, Britten - London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Steuart Bedford
- 24:42 – The Nightwatchman (Allamanda) (track 12, Biber: Sacro-Profanum: The Purcell Quartet)
- Performer Catherine Mackintosh
- Performer Catherine Weiss
- Performer Katherine McGillivray
- Performer Richard Boothby
- Performer Robert Woolley
- Composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
- Performer Rachel Byrt
- Ensemble Purcell Quartet
- Singer Peter Harvey
- 26:24 – Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine)
- Singer Renée Fleming
- Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra
- Composer Giacomo Puccini
- Conductor Jeffrey Tate
- Performer Ian Watson